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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2022 Background Mapping geographical accessibility to health services is essential to improve access to public health in sub-Saharan Africa. Different methods exist to estimate geographical accessibility, but little is known about the ability of these methods
Jérémie Bihin +2 more
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Geographic Access to Burn Center Hospitals [PDF]
JAMA, 2009 The delivery of burn care is a resource-intensive endeavor that requires specialized personnel and equipment. The optimal geographic distribution of burn centers has long been debated; however, the current distribution of centers relative to geographic area and population is unknown.To estimate the proportion of the US population living within 1 and 2 ...
Matthew B, Klein +5 more
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Scheduled channel access using geographical classification [PDF]
2013 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 2013 Geographical Classification Multiple Access (GCMA) is introduced for scheduled channel access in large wireless networks. GCMA uses the geo-spatial coordinates of nodes, together with their transmission and interference ranges, to define collision-free transmission schedules using deterministic distributed algorithms. These algorithms require each node
Masilamani, A., Garcia-Luna-Aceves, J.J.
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Rural and Remote Health, 2021 Introduction: Colombia's rural areas have suffered from government neglect, exacerbating their difficulties in relation to geographic isolation and meeting basic needs.
Santiago Cardona +2 more
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Disparities in Geographical Access to Hospitals in Portugal
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Geographical accessibility to health care services is widely accepted as relevant to improve population health. However, measuring it is very complex, mainly when applied at administrative levels that go beyond the small-area level.
Claudia Costa +2 more
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Geographic Access To Physician Services [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 1990 Prior to the last decade, it was widely accepted that physicians were geo graphically maldistributed; indeed, a major federal initiative, the National Health Service Corps, was based on that premise (24). The maldistribution most commonly referred to was between urban and rural areas, although there was some reference to maldistribution within urban ...
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A GIS approach towards estimating tourist's off-road use in a mountainous protected area of Northwest Yunnan, China [PDF]
, 2014 To address the environmental impacts of tourism in protected areas, park managers need to understand the spatial distribution of tourist use. Standard monitoring measures (tourist surveys and counting and tracking techniques) are not sufficient to ...
De Wulf, Robert +5 more
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Spatial accessibility and social inclusion: The impact of Portugal's last health reform [PDF]
, 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. +12 more
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Geographic disparities in access to liver transplantation
Liver Transplantation, 2023 Since the Final Rule regarding transplantation was published in 1999, organ distribution policies have been implemented to reduce geographic disparity. While a recent change in liver allocation, termed acuity circles, eliminated the donor service area as a unit of distribution to decrease the geographic disparity of waitlisted patients to liver ...
Mignote Yilma +4 more
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NOVEL ACCESSIBILITY METRICS BASED ON HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION OF TRANSPORT NETWORKS [PDF]
Scientific Journal of Silesian University of Technology. Series Transport, 2023 Scientific analysis of public transport systems at the urban, regional, and national levels is vital in this contemporary, highly connected world. Quantifying the accessibility of nodes (locations) in a transport network is considered a holistic measure ...
Divya KWATRA +2 more
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