Background/aim: Australia's inequitable distribution of health services is well documented,
and issues associated with spatial access are often influenced by Australia's vast landmass …

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

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 …

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

Introduction: Geographic measures of accessibility can quantify inequitable distributions of
health care. Although closest distance measures are often used in Aotearoa New Zealand …

Abstract The National Primary Health Care Strategy in Australia recommends primary health
care services need to be clinically and culturally appropriate and delivered in a timely and …

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 …

AIM: To develop a distance-based index of patients' spatial accessibility to healthcare
services as a quantifiable basis for analysing health services and health outcomes in urban …

Purpose To examine potential indicators of health need for primary care in spatial equity
research, and evidence of the Inverse Care Law in the Waikato region of New Zealand …

Concerns about variations in access to health care services have been voiced for many
years in NZ, and timely, equitable access to health care is a key health policy goal …