Background Primary health care (PHC) encompasses an array of health and social services
that focus on preventative, diagnostic, and basic care measures to maintain wellbeing and …

Ensuring equity of access to primary health care (PHC) across Canada is a continuing
challenge, especially in rural and remote regions. Despite considerable attention recently by …

Background Quantifying spatial access to care—the interplay of accessibility and availability—
is vital for healthcare planning and understanding implications of services (mal-) distribution …

Assessments of health care requirements can be based on need (the number of providers a
population ideally should require) or demand (the number the population can support) …

Studies on social and regional inequalities in access to health care often use spatial
indicators such as physician density to measure access to health care. However, the …

This article synthesizes two GIS-based accessibility measures into one framework, and
applies the methods to examining spatial accessibility to primary health care in the Chicago …

Access to health services research has traditionally focused on demographic,
socioeconomic, and need-based factors, resulting in a relative lack of knowledge regarding …

The increasing availability of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in health
organisations, together with the proliferation of spatially disaggregate data, has led to a …

Background Urban environments can influence many aspects of health and well-being and
access to health care is one of them. Access to primary health care (PHC) in urban settings …

Introduction: Geographic measures of accessibility can quantify inequitable distributions of
health care. Although closest distance measures are often used in Aotearoa New Zealand …