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
Background Australia's inequitable distribution of health services is well documented.
Spatial access relates to the geographic limitations affecting the availability and accessibility …

Spatial accessibility to health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa: comparing existing models with survey-based perceived accessibility

J Bihin, F De Longueville, C Linard - International Journal of Health …, 2022 - Springer
Background Mapping geographical accessibility to health services is essential to improve
access to public health in sub-Saharan Africa. Different methods exist to estimate …

Spatial access disparities to primary health care in rural and remote Australia

MR McGrail, JS Humphreys - Geospatial health, 2015 - geospatialhealth.net
Poor spatial access to health care remains a key issue for rural populations worldwide.
Whilst geographic information systems (GIS) have enabled the development of more …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the error associated with alternative GIS-based techniques to measure access to health care services

A Mizen, R Fry, D Grinnell, SE Rodgers - AIMS public health, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The aim of this study was to quantify the error associated with different accessibility methods
commonly used by public health researchers. Network distances were calculated from each …

Spatial equity and realised access to healthcare-a geospatial analysis of general practitioner enrolments in Waikato, New Zealand

J Whitehead, AL Pearson, R Lawrenson… - Rural and remote …, 2019 - search.informit.org
Introduction: Geographic measures of accessibility can quantify inequitable distributions of
health care. Although closest distance measures are often used in Aotearoa New Zealand …

Primary Health Care Accessibility for Rural Otago:'A Spatial Analysis'

N Bagheri, GL Benwell, A Holt - HIC 2006 and HINZ 2006 …, 2006 - search.informit.org
This research aims to develop a new approach for measuring spatial accessibility to primary
health care (PHC) services. New Zealand and World Health Organisation (WHO) rules were …

Gravity models for potential spatial healthcare access measurement: a systematic methodological review

B Stacherl, O Sauzet - International Journal of Health Geographics, 2023 - Springer
Background Quantifying spatial access to care—the interplay of accessibility and availability—
is vital for healthcare planning and understanding implications of services (mal-) distribution …

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
The increasing availability of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in health
organisations, together with the proliferation of spatially disaggregate data, has led to a …

Methods of measuring spatial accessibility to health care in Uganda

P Ouma, PM Macharia, E Okiro, V Alegana - Practicing health geography …, 2021 - Springer
Ensuring everyone has access to health care regardless of demographic, geographic and
social economic status is a key component of universal health coverage. In sub-Saharan …

Population need and geographical access to general practitioners in rural New Zealand

L Brabyn, AR Barnett - 2004 - researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz
To use a geographical information system (GIS) approach to demonstrate the extent to
which different areas in New Zealand vary in their geographical access to GPs, and to …