Background Primary health care is essential in improving and maintaining the health of
populations. It has the potential to accelerate achievement of the Millennium Development …

Universal access to primary healthcare facilities is a driving goal of healthcare
organizations. Despite Canada's universal access to primary healthcare status, spatial …

Health care accessibility studies are well established in the US but lacking in Austria, even
though both experience high costs and have hospital care as the largest contributor to …

The recent decade has witnessed a new wave of development in the place-based
accessibility theory, revolving around the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method …

There has been limited information on spatial accessibility to healthcare in Multi-island Micro
States (MIMS). This is partly due to the application of methodologies that do not sufficiently …

Background Access to healthcare services has an essential role in promoting health equity
and quality of life. Knowing where the places are and how much of the population is covered …

Background The potential spatial access to urban health services is an important issue in
health geography, spatial epidemiology and public health. Computing geographical …

Due to restrictions on personnel availability, the service capacity at a health facility may vary
day to day based on an established schedule. This temporal variability influences a user's …

Background Spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities has drawn much attention in health
geography. In China, central and local governments have aimed to develop a well …

Population demand, health service supply, and the linkages between them (eg, transport
infrastructure) are important factors that determine spatial accessibility to healthcare at a …