Traveling towards disease: transportation barriers to health care access

ST Syed, BS Gerber, LK Sharp - Journal of community health, 2013 - Springer
Transportation barriers are often cited as barriers to healthcare access. Transportation
barriers lead to rescheduled or missed appointments, delayed care, and missed or delayed …

Transportation barriers to health care in the United States: findings from the national health interview survey, 1997–2017

MK Wolfe, NC McDonald… - American journal of …, 2020 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To quantify the number of people in the US who delay medical care annually
because of lack of available transportation and to examine the differential prevalence of this …

Impact of transportation interventions on health care outcomes: a systematic review

EM Solomon, H Wing, JF Steiner, LM Gottlieb - Medical care, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Methods: We searched 3 databases (Embase, PubMed, Google) for studies of health care
sector-sponsored programs that provided patients assistance with nonemergency …

A systematic review of interventions to minimize transportation barriers among people with chronic diseases

LE Starbird, C DiMaina, CA Sun, HR Han - Journal of community health, 2019 - Springer
Transportation is an important social determinant of health. Transportation barriers
disproportionately affect the most vulnerable groups of society who carry the highest burden …

Disparities in travel-related barriers to accessing health care from the 2017 national household travel survey

M Labban, CR Chen, N Frego, DD Nguyen… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Geographic access, including mode of transportation, to health care facilities
remains understudied. Objective To identify sociodemographic factors associated with …

Access to transportation and health care utilization in a rural region

TA Arcury, JS Preisser, WM Gesler… - The Journal of Rural …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Context: Access to transportation to transverse the large distances between residences and
health services in rural settings is a necessity. However, little research has examined directly …

Effect of interventions for non-emergent medical transportation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

PG Shekelle, MM Begashaw, IM Miake-Lye, M Booth… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Transportation is an important social determinant of health. We conducted a
systematic review of the associations on health and health care utilization of interventions …

Transportation to clinic: findings from a pilot clinic-based survey of low-income suburbanites

D Silver, J Blustein, BC Weitzman - Journal of immigrant and minority …, 2012 - Springer
Health care policymakers have cited transportation barriers as key obstacles to providing
health care to low-income suburbanites, particularly because suburbs have become home …

Access to health care and nonemergency medical transportation: two missing links

R Wallace, P Hughes-Cromwick… - Transportation …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Although lack of access to nonemergency medical transportation (NEMT) is a barrier to
health care, national transportation and health care surveys have not comprehensively …

Effects of residence and race on burden of travel for care: cross sectional analysis of the 2001 US National Household Travel Survey

JC Probst, SB Laditka, JY Wang… - BMC health services …, 2007 - Springer
Background Travel burden is a key element in conceptualizing geographic access to health
care. Prior research has shown that both rural and minority populations bear …