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 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 …

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

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Objective To outline a new index of access to primary care services in rural areas that has
been specifically designed to overcome weaknesses of using existing geographical …

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 …