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 …

Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access
and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in) justice without critically placing their …

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 …

The floating catchment area (FCA) family of metrics employ principles from gravity-based
models to incorporate supply, demand, and distance in their characterization of the spatial …

Background The two step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method has emerged in the last
decade as a key measure of spatial accessibility, particularly in its application to primary …

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 …

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 …

Acculturation represents an important construct for elucidating the determinants and
consequences of health disparities in minority populations. However, the processes and …

This paper puts forward a commuter-based version of the two-step floating catchment area
(2SFCA) method, which has gained acceptance in studies on spatial health care …

Background The potential spatial access to urban health services is an important issue in
health geography, spatial epidemiology and public health. Computing geographical …