Defining health care accessibility is one of the major tasks that should be covered by health
planners. This task can be implemented based on spatial and non-spatial factors. The …

Background Poor spatial accessibility to hospital services is associated with higher morbidity
and mortality rates among people living with disability. Improved methods to evaluate spatial …

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 …

Background This paper analyses the relationship between public perceptions of access to
general practitioners (GPs) surgeries and hospitals against health status, car ownership and …

Background The adequate allocation of inpatient care resources requires assumptions
about the need for health care and how this need will be met. However, in current practice …

Health is geographically differentiated thereby creating an inextricable link between “place”
and “health”. Differences in access to healthcare services and resulting adverse health …

Background For achieving equity of the accessibility to primary healthcare, measuring
potential geographical accessibility is essential. The provider-to-population ratio is the most …

The usefulness of gravity-based spatial access models is limited because of the uncertainty
introduced by the range of values of the impedance coefficient. To solve this problem, this …

Access to primary health care is considered a fundamental right and an important facilitator
of overall population health. Township health centers (THCs) and Community health centers …

Network distance and travel times are two popular methods of measuring potential
geographic accessibility and networks are also used in gravity model-based approaches …