The application of spatial measures to analyse health service accessibility in Australia: a systematic review and recommendations for future practice

SM Wood, L Alston, H Beks, K Mc Namara… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
… This review is the first comprehensive systematic review to synthesise the evidence on how
spatial measures have been applied to measure health service accessibility in the Australian

The application of spatial measures to analyse health service accessibility in Australia: a systematic review.

S Wood, L Alston, H Beks, K McNamara, R Clark… - 2022 - bhsdigitalrepository.bhs.org.au
… geographical inequalities and create improved measures of accessibility. This … that uses
GIS to spatially analyse health service access in Australia to understand which spatial measures

Spatial methods for measuring access to health care

H Beks, SM Wood, RA Clark… - European Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
… research applying spatial methods to measure the accessibility and availability of health
services is … (Australia) To examine the spatial accessibility of chronic heart failure management …

Spatial accessibility of primary health care utilising the two step floating catchment area method: an assessment of recent improvements

MR McGrail - International journal of health geographics, 2012 - Springer
… Demonstrating these improvements to the whole state of Victoria, Australia, this paper presents
the … This paper focuses on one such measure of spatial accessibility, the two-step floating …

A literature review of the use of GIS-based measures of access to health care services

G Higgs - Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2004 - Springer
… In summary, the choice of measure selected to examine spatial patterns in accessibility has
… distribution of general practice services in an Australian city by levels of social disadvantage,…

Spatial accessibility of primary care: concepts, methods and challenges

MF Guagliardo - International journal of health geographics, 2004 - Springer
… , describes recent developments in GIS and spatial analysis, and presents examples of …
access that is less well understood – spatial accessibility, a measure of potential for health care

The index of rural access: an innovative integrated approach for measuring primary care access

MR McGrail, JS Humphreys - BMC Health Services Research, 2009 - Springer
… measuring health service access, often referred to as "spatialAustralian index which
measures access to rural education … Principal Components Analysis was used to determine the …

Spatial analysis of access to and accessibility surrounding train stations: A case study of accessibility for the elderly in Perth, Western Australia

TG Lin, JC Xia, TP Robinson, KG Goulias… - Journal of Transport …, 2014 - Elsevier
… and apply a new spatial measure of accessibility to train stations, justified by the spatial
, specifically the presence of retail, education and training, health care and social assistance…

Comparing alternative approaches to measuring the geographical accessibility of urban health services: Distance types and aggregation-error issues

P Apparicio, M Abdelmajid, M Riva… - … journal of health …, 2008 - Springer
examine correlations between the four distances for each spatial unit centroids and the 642
health services. … this paper show that measures of geographical accessibility of urban health

How can the spatial equity of health services be defined and measured? A systematic review of spatial equity definitions and methods

J Whitehead, A L. Pearson… - … of health services …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… to GPs in an Australia capital city, finding … , this review did not consider the types of spatial
accessibility measurement used by individual studies. Different spatial accessibility measures