Access to health care is a universal human right and key indicator of health system
performance. Spatial access encompasses geographic factors mediating with the …

Background Quantifying spatial access to care—the interplay of accessibility and availability—
is vital for healthcare planning and understanding implications of services (mal-) distribution …

Background Healthcare accessibility, a key public health issue, includes potential (spatial
accessibility) and realized access (healthcare utilization) dimensions. Moreover, the …

Studies on social and regional inequalities in access to health care often use spatial
indicators such as physician density to measure access to health care. However, the …

Primary care is recognized as the most important form of healthcare for maintaining
population health because it is relatively inexpensive, can be more easily delivered than …

This research is focused on methodological challenges and considerations associated with
the estimation of the geographical aspects of access to healthcare with a focus on rural and …

Improving spatial accessibility to hospitals is a major task for health care systems which can
be facilitated using recent methodological improvements of spatial accessibility measures …

This study examined the incongruence of travel distance between the nearest provider and
the provider that pregnant woman actually chose to visit. Using a dataset of South Carolina …

Ability to physically get to a primary healthcare provider has been one of the issues that has
led to healthcare disparities in the US. As the number of people that can get insurance …

In health disparities research, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) provide nurse
researchers with powerful tools to incorporate spatial factors, such as access to care and …