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Using floating catchment area (FCA) metrics to predict health care utilization patterns [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Floating Catchment Area (FCA) metrics provide a comprehensive measure of potential spatial accessibility to health care services and are often used to identify geographic disparities in health care access.
Paul L. Delamater +2 more
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Demand and level of service inflation in Floating Catchment Area (FCA) methods. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Floating Catchment Area (FCA) methods are a popular tool to investigate accessibility to public facilities, in particular health care services. FCA approaches are attractive because, unlike other accessibility measures, they take into account the ...
Antonio Paez +2 more
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International Journal of Digital EarthThe accessibility of emergency shelters is crucial for reducing casualties. Previous studies on the accessibility of emergency shelters have limitations in the refinement and comprehensiveness of supply and demand data.
Yongyang Xu, Chiyu Zhou, Bin Hu
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023 Public libraries are critical facilities that provide a variety of essential services to the public such as providing access to information, resources, sheltering and gathering space during natural disasters such as hurricanes, especially in rural areas.
Samuel Takyi +6 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]
Int J Equity 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.
Tao Z, Cheng Y, Liu J.
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International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2023 The modelling of catchment-based instead of local demand and optimal instead of sub-optimal character (i.e., locational configuration) of service delivery systems, commonly done in Floating Catchment Area (FCA) measures, generate spatial accessibility ...
F. Mahuve, Beatrice Tarimo
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Measuring Spatial Accessibility of Health Care Providers - Introduction of a Variable Distance Decay Function within the Floating Catchment Area (FCA) Method. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We integrated recent improvements within the floating catchment area (FCA) method family into an integrated 'iFCA`method. Within this method we focused on the distance decay function and its parameter.
Jan Bauer, David A Groneberg
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Spatial accessibility for deploying mobile lung cancer screenings in a rural state using two-step floating catchment spatial analysis in Oklahoma, United States 2025 [PDF]
Preventive Medicine ReportsObjective: Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Mobile screening units have reduced access barriers. To assess lung cancer screening spatial access, we utilized a two-step floating catchment analysis (2SFCA) and an ...
Janis E. Campbell +6 more
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Applied SciencesThe 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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International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2019 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.
Xiang Chen, Pengfei Jia
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