Spatial accessibility provides significant policy implications, describing the spatial disparity
of access and supporting the decision-making process for placing additional infrastructure at …

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

Safety is an important dimension of access to green space. When parks are perceived as
unsafe, people are unlikely to derive the health and community benefits from them. In this …

The recent decade has witnessed a new wave of development in the place-based
accessibility theory, revolving around the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method …

Public discourse and scholars alike argue that the spatial divide in voting behavior and
attitudes is rooted in geographic inequalities that serve as breeding grounds for political …

Floating Catchment Area (FCA) methods are a popular tool to investigate accessibility to
public facilities, in particular health care services. FCA approaches are attractive because …

Urban green spaces play a critical role in public health and human wellbeing for urban
residents. Due to the uneven spatial distribution of urban green spaces in most of cities, the …

Providing timely access to healthcare is one of the main components of resilient cities and
communities. Even without the occurrence of a disaster, the need to access healthcare and …

In the debate about rural depopulation it is frequently assumed that population decline goes
hand-in-hand with the decline of facilities and services. Hence, spatial policy for rural areas …

Good accessibility of health care services is essential to meet the needs of the population
and ensure adequate health care coverage. It usually refers to two spatial dimensions …