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How spatial accessibility to colonoscopy affects diagnostic adherences and adverse intestinal outcomes among the patients with positive preliminary screening findings

Cancer Medicine, 2020
Background Colonoscopy is an important procedure for early colorectal cancer (CRC) detection, however, patients with positive preliminary screening results in China may not seek for colonoscopy to confirm the diagnosis.
Weiyi Chen, WangJian Zhang, Huazhang Liu, Yingru Liang, Qin Zhou, Yan Li, Jing Gu   +6 more
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Spatial accessibility and social inclusion: The impact of Portugal's last health reform [PDF]

GeoHealth, Volume 3, Issue 11, Page 356-368, November 2019., 2019
Health policies seek to promote access to health care and should provide appropriate geographical accessibility to each demographical functional group.
Ben‐Akiva M. E., El‐Geneidy A., Law M., Radke J., Remoaldo P., Ribeiro V., Ribeiro V., Rodrigue J.‐P., Saúde M., Saúde M., Saúde M., Simões J., Small K. A.   +12 more
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Access to surgery in Ecuador using the enhanced 2-step floating catchment area approach [PDF]

BMC Global and Public Health
Background Traditional surgical access metrics are often presented at the national level, providing poor insight for local policy makers. The Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) method is an alternative to current methods with two key ...
Taylor Wurdeman, Alejandro Torres Balarezo, Alfredo Borrero Vega, Tanujit Dey, Maria Falconi, Maria José Garcia, Mateo Iza, Nikathan Kumar, Ayla Gerk, Zachary Fowler, Edgar Rodas, Juan Carlos Salamea, Sabrina Juran, John G. Meara, Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz   +14 more
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Trap of weights: The reuse of weights in the floating catchment area (FCA) methods to measuring accessibility [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]

F1000Research, 2022
Background: Geographic weights are vital in the floating catchment area (FCA) method of accessibility measurements due to their simulation of spatial barriers in various ways. When modelling population demand, geographical weights with different distance
Lina Zhang
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Measuring hospital spatial accessibility using the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method to assess the impact of spatial accessibility to hospital and non-hospital care on the length of hospital stay [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Optimal healthcare access improves the health status and decreases health inequalities. Many studies demonstrated the importance of spatial access to healthcare facilities in health outcomes, particularly using the enhanced two-step floating ...
Fei Gao, Matthieu Jaffrelot, Séverine Deguen   +2 more
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Investigating the Spatial Accessibility and Coverage of the Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine: An Ecologic Study of Regional Health Data [PDF]

Vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic presented the unique challenge of having to deliver novel vaccines during a public health crisis. For pediatric patients, it was further complicated by the delayed timeline for authorizing the vaccine and the differences in dosing ...
Amin Bemanian, Jonathan F. Mosser
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Urban-rural disparities in spatiotemporal accessibility of pharmacy care: a case study of Vermont, USA [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Pharmacies are more accessible than other health care services, providing frontline primary and preventative health care. Recent research has underscored the importance of pharmacy access for reaching underserved and rural populations. However,
Samuel Roubin, Joseph Holler, Peter Kedron   +2 more
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Enhanced Two-Step Virtual Catchment Area (E2SVCA) model to measure telehealth accessibility [PDF]

Computational Urban Science, 2023
The use of telehealth has increased significantly over the last decade and has become even more popular and essential during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements.
Yaxiong Shao, Wei Luo
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Computing geographical access to services:The design of a client–server solution that incorporates multiple transport modes [PDF]

Transactions in GIS, Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 1849-1867, August 2021., 2021
Abstract This study describes the design and implementation of a web‐based infrastructure built on open‐source components to enable the computation of accessibility scores. It can be adapted to any form of service provision that is represented as geo‐located points.
Higgs, Gary, Langford, Mitchel, Price, Andrew   +2 more
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Empowering access: unveiling an overall composite spatial accessibility index to healthcare services in Southeastern Iran [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Access to healthcare is critical for population health; however, geographic barriers persist especially in rural and deprived regions.
Ahmad Raeesi, Soheil Hashtarkhani, Mahmood Tara, Narjes Sargolzaei, Behzad Kiani   +4 more
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