Health policies seek to promote access to health care and should provide appropriate
geographical accessibility to each demographical functional group. The dispersal demand …

Spatial accessibility to medical resources is an integral component of universal health
coverage. However, research evaluating the spatial accessibility of healthcare services at …

Background Access to healthcare is imperative to health equity and well-being. Geographic
access to healthcare can be modeled using spatial datasets on local context, together with …

Quantification and assessment of nationwide population access to health-care services is a
critical undertaking for improving population health and optimizing the performance of …

Research at the confluence of accessibility, equity and health is flourishing. And yet, there is
only slow and modest progress in terms of improving the spatial and temporal accuracy of …

Floating catchment area methods have been noticeable in the analyses of spatial access to
primary care. This paper enhances the existing floating catchment area methods by …

Existing measures of health care access were inadequate for guiding policy decisions in
West Virginia, as they identified the entire state as having limited access. To address this, we …

Background The geographical accessibility of health services is an important issue
especially in developing countries and even more for those sharing a border as for Haiti and …

Spatial access to health is important for Sustainable Development Goal 3, yet most existing
studies have largely focused on the primary health care level without considering other …

Context Patients are the most valid source for evaluating the accessibility of services, but a
previous study observed differential psychometric performance of instruments in rural and …