Research at the confluence of accessibility, equity and health is flourishing. And yet, there is
only slow and modest progress in terms of improving the spatial and temporal accuracy of …

All women should have access to high quality maternity services—but what do we know
about the health care available to and used by women? With a focus on low-income and …

Access to healthcare is a requirement for human well-being that is constrained, in part, by
the allocation of healthcare resources relative to the geographically dispersed human …

Accessibility is a concept of continuing relevance in transportation research. A number of
different measures of accessibility, defined as the potential to reach spatially dispersed …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method continues to be a popular measure of
spatial accessibility, especially in relation to primary-level health care. Despite its popularity …

Although access to health care is frequently identified as a goal for health care policy, the
precise meaning of access to health care often remains unclear. We present a conceptual …

The increasing inequality in spatial accessibility to hospitals in developing countries has
been attracting attention from researchers and politicians. The situation seems to be worse …

Background Ease of access to health care is of great importance in any country but
particularly in countries such as Niger where restricted access can put people at risk of …

Background Inequalities in geographic access to health care result from the configuration of
facilities, population distribution, and the transportation infrastructure. In recent accessibility …