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Multi-modal two-step floating catchment area analysis of primary health care accessibility.

open access: yesHealth & Place, 2016
Two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) techniques are popular for measuring potential geographical accessibility to health care services. This paper proposes methodological enhancements to increase the sophistication of the 2SFCA methodology by incorporating both public and private transport modes using dedicated network datasets.
M. Langford, G. Higgs, R. Fry
semanticscholar   +5 more sources

Approaches to Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in Sub-Saharan Africa

2022
AbstractThe geographical area around a health facility characterizing the population that utilizes some or all of its services – a health facility catchment area (HFCA)-, forms the fundamental basis of estimating reliable population denominator for disease mapping and routine healthcare planning.
Peter M. Macharia   +5 more
openaire   +1 more source

Cervical cancer screening in the Ferrara Local Health Authority catchment area

Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene, 2007
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 48, No 4 (2007)
BERGAMINI, Mauro   +11 more
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Evaluation of access to health care in rural areas using enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method

Journal of Transport Geography, 2016
The study concerns with the quantification of accessibility to health facilities which is a prime concern in rural areas. In order to assure access to health care, planning commissions and policy decision makers require definite and reliable measures of accessibility values, thus that appropriate health care shortage areas can be analyzed and a policy ...
Shalini Kanuganti, A. Sarkar, A. Singh
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

The Effect of Breast Cancer Health Education on The Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice: A Community Health Center Catchment Area

Journal of Cancer Education, 2014
Studies indicate that women in China are not frequently carrying out breast cancer prevention practices. This is assumed to be due to lack of knowledge and/or lack of personalized instruction. This study was to explore the effect of breast cancer health education on women's knowledge and attitudes on breast cancer and breast self-examination, behavior ...
Yan-Qiong Ouyang, Xiaoyan Hu
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Design of Catchment Areas for Community Mental Health Services

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1969
THE catchment area—the area containing the population for which a community mental health service unit has responsibility—is a key concept of community psychiatry. The service unit is required to provide or arrange service for every area resident in need.
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