Background The two step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method has emerged in the last
decade as a key measure of spatial accessibility, particularly in its application to primary …

The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method continues to be a popular measure of
spatial accessibility, especially in relation to primary-level health care. Despite its popularity …

Quantifying spatial accessibility in relation to the provision of rural health services has
proven difficult. This article critically appraises the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) …

Government efforts designed to help improve healthcare access rely on accurate measures
of accessibility so that resources can be allocated to truly needy areas. In order to capture …

Background Reducing spatial access disparities to healthcare services is a growing priority
for healthcare planners especially among developed countries with aging populations …

Background The problem of access to health care is of growing concern for rural and remote
populations. Many Australian rural health funding programs currently use simplistic rurality …

Gravity-based spatial access models have been widely used to estimate spatial access to
healthcare services in an attempt to capture the interaction of various factors. However …

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 …

Two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) techniques are popular for measuring potential
geographical accessibility to health care services. This paper proposes methodological …

This paper presents an enhancement of the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA)
method for measuring spatial accessibility, addressing the problem of uniform access within …