Cross-city patient mobility and healthcare equity and efficiency: Evidence from Hefei, China

X Yan, L Shan, S He, J Zhang - Travel Behaviour and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent studies on healthcare accessibility have made use of medical records to study the
actual patient mobility and its implications for healthcare governance. Drawing on 39,067 …

Examining geographical accessibility to multi-tier hospital care services for the elderly: A focus on spatial equity

L Cheng, M Yang, J De Vos, F Witlox - Journal of Transport & Health, 2020 - Elsevier
Background With the rapid demographic shift towards an ageing society, it is a concerted
effort to facilitate elderly's access to healthcare in order to maintain and improve their quality …

Enhancing intercity transportation will improve the equitable distribution of high-quality health care in China

H Zhang, BB Zhou, S Liu, G Hu, X Meng, X Liu, H Shi… - Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the implementation of the patient-mobility policy and the development of intercity
transportation in China, interprovincial patient mobility has become an important …

The impact of traffic on equality of urban healthcare service accessibility: A case study in Wuhan, China

Y Xia, H Chen, C Zuo, N Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Accessibility to healthcare services strongly correlates with residents' health. As one of the
objectives of sustainable cities, the social equality of access to healthcare plays a vital role …

Facility or transport inequality? Decomposing healthcare accessibility inequality in Shenzhen, China

Z Tao, Q Wang - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Accessibility to healthcare services is crucial for residents' wellbeing. Numerous studies
have revealed significant spatial inequality in healthcare accessibility across various …

Identifying temporal variations in accessibility inequity to healthcare services across different travel strategies

Z Gan, T Liang, R Yang - Journal of Transport & Health, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Although many studies have addressed accessibility inequity of healthcare
services, little research has examined differences in accessibility and its spatiotemporal …

The uneven distribution of medical resources for severe diseases in China: An analysis of the disparity in inter-city patient mobility

X Wang, X Nie - Applied Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
The uneven distribution of medical resources in China has been a persistent concern. This
is particularly evident among patients with severe diseases, who often seek better medical …

Understanding patients heterogeneity in healthcare travel and hospital choice-A latent class analysis with covariates

Y Gao, H Pan, Z Xie, KN Habib - Journal of Transport Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Access to health care is key to well-being, and it is increasingly clear that aggregated
accessibility analysis is hard to reflect people's actual healthcare behaviour. This paper …

Analyzing the Impact of Decreasing Out-of-Vehicle Time of Public Transportation Travel on Accessibility to Tertiary Hospitals

Z Wang, D Liu, S Li, S Liu, H Li, N Chen - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Unequal distribution of healthcare resources can lead to many fundamental problems,
including the accessibility and equity of care in different regions. Existing studies often focus …

Incorporating multiple travel modes into a floating catchment area framework to analyse patterns of accessibility to hierarchical healthcare facilities

X Ma, F Ren, Q Du, P Liu, L Li, Y Xi, P Jia - Journal of Transport & Health, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction The existing healthcare-services-related literature tends to examine
accessibility under a single travel mode, and measurement approaches are remaining …