Cancer care disparities among rural populations are increasingly documented and may be
worsening, likely because of the impact of rurality on access to state-of-the-art cancer …

Objectives To investigate whether there is an association between differences in travel
time/travel distance to healthcare services and patients' health outcomes and assimilate the …

The burden of travel from a patient's residence to health care providers is an important issue
that can influence access to diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Although several studies …

Despite spending more than any other nation on medical care per person, the United States
ranks behind other industrialized nations in key health performance measures. A main …

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 …

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 …

Few measures of healthcare accessibility have considered multiple transportation modes
when people seek healthcare. Based on the framework of the 2 Step Floating Catchment …

This study evaluates the role of black residential segregation and spatial access to health
care in explaining the variation in late-stage diagnosis of breast cancer in metropolitan …

Two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) techniques are popular for measuring potential
geographical accessibility to health care services. This paper proposes methodological …

Abstract Analysis of spatial access to healthcare services is critical for effective health
resource planning. Gravity‐based spatial access models have been widely used to estimate …