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With the continuous aging of society, the demand among elderly citizens for care facilities is increasing. The accessibility of elderly care facilities is a significant indicator for evaluating whether the layout of urban elderly care facilities is reasonable, and research on the spatial accessibility of related facilities has become an important ...
Linggui Liu, Han Lyu, Yi Zhao, Dian Zhou
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Accessibility to public high schools and school performance in metropolitan Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1990-2010 [PDF]
Education policies developed to initiate improvements to public school systems across Louisiana often result in a continuation or intensification of salient yet overlooked accessibility challenges.
Williams, Shaun E.
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Abstract Public health-care facilities are essential to all communities, and their location has long been an important issue in urban planning. With the steady growth of Shenzhen’s population, the government needs to decide where health-care facilities should be located to improve the equity of accessibility, and further more to raise ...
Yi Song, Lu Liu, Lei Xia
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Hypertension is a known modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia (ADRD). However, it is unknown how variance in hypertension control, antihypertensive medications, and social determinants of health, such as social deprivation index (SDI), influence the risk of developing ADRD.
Eissa A. Jafari +6 more
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Evaluating spatial and social inequality by using GIS to analyze the catchment area and capacity of preschools in Ghent, Belgium [PDF]
The growing popularity of the city as a qualitative living environment has an explicit and distinct impact on all regional cities in Flanders (Belgium).
De Maeyer, Philippe +4 more
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We compared the results of the accessibility and equity by using the cumulative opportunity measure and two‐step floating catchment area method (2SFCA). We explored the similarities and differences between the two methods in 12 different scenarios including two transportation modes and six key urban services.
Yue Chen +3 more
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The multi-modal two-step floating catchment area (MM-2SFCA) method is an extension of the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method that incorporates the impact of different transportation modes, thereby facilitating more accurate calculations of ...
Shijie Sun +3 more
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Community public service facilities have a primary supportive role in the health of the elderly. Under the background of global aging, it has become vital to evaluate the elderly-adaptability of their layouts.
Yonghua Li +3 more
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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. The 2SFCA method, initially serving to evaluate the spatial inequity of health care services, has been further applied to other urban planning and facility access issues.
Xiang Chen, Pengfei Jia
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ABSTRACT As an early concept in Green Infrastructure (GI) research, landscape‐scale GI (LGI) has faced challenges due to its large spatial scale, limiting its application compared to smaller‐scale GI. However, its efficiency and multifunctionality in supporting Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are gaining attention.
Xiaoqi Yang +3 more
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