Fire and rescue services are among the most critical public services provided by
governments to protect people, property and the environment from fires and other …

Utilization of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services can significantly impact health
outcomes, such as pregnancy and birth, prenatal and neonatal mortality, maternal morbidity …

Although ZIP Codes are a commonly used geographic unit for mapping and spatial analysis,
they frequently distort data (Beyer, Schultz, and Rushton, 2007; Cudnick et al., 2012; Dai …

ZIP Codes¹ are commonly used for mapping, spatial analyses, creating tables, or other
reporting products. Used for these tasks, the results from using these geographies often are …

Background Access to skilled attendance at childbirth is crucial to reduce maternal and
newborn mortality. Several different measures of geographic access are used concurrently …

Importance Despite the sizeable global burden of hearing loss, cochlear implants have poor
penetrance among eligible hearing-impaired individuals. Identifying populations who may …

Background Access as a primary indicator of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) efficiency
has been widely studied over the last few decades. Most previous studies considered one …

A sharing economy accommodation service like Airbnb, which provides trust between
strangers to connect them for profiting from underutilized assets, was born and has thrived …

Background Maternal morbidity and mortality is still a major public health issue in low-and
middle-income countries such as Cambodia. Improving access to antenatal care (ANC) …

Existing measures of health care access were inadequate for guiding policy decisions in
West Virginia, as they identified the entire state as having limited access. To address this, we …