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 Primary health care (PHC) encompasses an array of health and social services
that focus on preventative, diagnostic, and basic care measures to maintain wellbeing and …

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 …

Background The two step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method has emerged in the last
decade as a key measure of spatial accessibility, particularly in its application to primary …

This paper presents an enhancement of the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA)
method for measuring spatial accessibility, addressing the problem of uniform access within …

Assessments of health care requirements can be based on need (the number of providers a
population ideally should require) or demand (the number the population can support) …

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 …

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

Gravity-based spatial access models have been widely used to estimate spatial access to
healthcare services in an attempt to capture the interaction of various factors. However …

Ensuring equity of access to primary health care (PHC) across Canada is a continuing
challenge, especially in rural and remote regions. Despite considerable attention recently by …