Spatial accessibility of home visiting nursing: An exploratory ecological study [PDF]
Health Science ReportsBackground and Aims Japan is one of the oldest societies worldwide and manages a system of care for older adults in the community. In the 2000s, a community‐based integrated care system was introduced to enable older adults to live in their neighborhoods.
Kazuki Ohashi +5 more
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Hierarchical two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method: measuring the spatial accessibility to hierarchical healthcare facilities in Shenzhen, China [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities has drawn much attention in health geography. In China, central and local governments have aimed to develop a well-organized hierarchical system of healthcare facilities in recent years.
Zhuolin Tao, Yang Cheng, Jixiang Liu
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Use of 2SFCA Method to Identify and Analyze Spatial Access Disparities to Healthcare in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2021 The issue of reducing spatial disparities in access to healthcare is one of the most important healthcare planning issues that policy makers and planners investigate and consider as a key focus until present time.
Bandar Fuad Khashoggi, Abdulkader Murad
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Multi-Mode Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) Method to Measure the Potential Spatial Accessibility of Healthcare Services [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 While great progress in the development of a methodological approach to measure the accessibility of healthcare services has been made, the exclusion of the complex multi-mode travel behavior of urban residents and a rough calculation of travel costs ...
Jianhua Ni +4 more
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Disparities in spatial accessibility of primary care in Louisiana: From physical to virtual accessibility. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2023 Telehealth has been widely employed and has transformed how healthcare is delivered in the United States as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. While telehealth is utilized and encouraged to reduce the cost and travel burden for access to healthcare, there ...
Wang F, Zeng Y, Liu L, Onega T.
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Equity Study on Urban Park Accessibility Based on Improved 2SFCA Method in Zhengzhou, China
Land, 2022 The distribution of urban parks is closely related to the opportunities of daily use by residents as well as the performance of the park system. The question as to whether parks are distributed equitably within cities is therefore becoming the focus of ...
Yang Yang +5 more
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The index of rural access: an innovative integrated approach for measuring primary care access [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2009 Background The problem of access to health care is of growing concern for rural and remote populations. Many Australian rural health funding programs currently use simplistic rurality or remoteness classifications as proxy measures of access.
McGrail Matthew R, Humphreys John S
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 The spatial accessibility of urban parks is an important indicator of the livability level of cities. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive multimodal two-step floating catchment area (CM2SFCA) method which integrates supply capacity, the selection ...
Kainan Mao, Jingzhong Li, Haowen Yan
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Optimizing the two-step floating catchment area method for measuring spatial accessibility to medical clinics in Montreal [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2011 Background Reducing spatial access disparities to healthcare services is a growing priority for healthcare planners especially among developed countries with aging populations.
Ngui André, Apparicio Philippe
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Evaluating the spatial accessibility and spatial layout optimization of HIV/AIDS healthcare services in Shandong Province, China [PDF]
Scientific ReportsImproving access to HIV/AIDS healthcare services is of great concern to government and policymakers striving to strengthen overall public health. How to reasonably allocate HIV/AIDS healthcare resources and maximize the equality of access to healthcare ...
Chao Zhang +9 more
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