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An Enhanced Variable Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method for Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Residential Care Facilities in Nanjing. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2015 Civil administration departments require reliable measures of accessibility so that residential care facility shortage areas can be accurately identified. Building on previous research, this paper proposes an enhanced variable two-step floating catchment area (EV2SFCA) method that determines facility catchment sizes by dynamically summing the ...
Ni J, Wang J, Rui Y, Qian T, Wang J.
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Spatial decision on allocating automated external defibrillators (AED) in communities by multi-criterion two-step floating catchment area (MC2SFCA). [PDF]
Int J Health Geogr, 2016 The occurrence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a critical life-threatening event which frequently warrants early defibrillation with an automated external defibrillator (AED). The optimization of allocating a limited number of AEDs in various types of communities is challenging.
Lin BC +7 more
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Spatial Accessibility to Sports Facilities in Dongguan, China: a Multi-Preference Gaussian Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Method [PDF]
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2021 Abstract Background: Equitable access to sports services has drawn attention from policymakers and planners in China as people’s health has been placed at the centre of the country’s policy-making machinery. However, existing approaches to measure the spatial accessibility of sports facilities tend to ignore the heterogeneity in potential users’
Tong Xiao +4 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 Telehealth has been widely employed and has transformed how healthcare is delivered in the United States as a result of COVID-19 pandemic. While telehealth is utilized and encouraged to reduce the cost and travel burden for access to healthcare, there ...
Fahui Wang +6 more
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Association between local spatial accessibility of dental care services and dental care quality
BMC Oral Health, 2021 Background The aim of our study was to evaluate the allocation of dental resources and explore access to dental care in Taiwan. In addition, we tried to understand the spatiotemporal characteristics of dental care quality and analyze the relationship ...
Ping-Chen Chung, Ta-Chien Chan
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 In order to improve the health and quality of life of older adults, the Chinese government is dedicated to establishing an equilibrium level of primary healthcare services for all communities.
Jingyu Yu +3 more
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A systematic evaluation of accessibility measures by the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method [PDF]
Abstracts of the ICA, 2019 Abstract. Accessibility, as an important theme in geospatial science, measures the potential of interaction between geographic entities. Originated in Hansen’s (1959) empirical model for land use planning, place-based accessibility becomes an integrated assessment of urban settlements in relation to social services and opportunities, such as employment,
Chen, Xiang, Jia, Pengfei
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Research on the Emergency Shelter Accessibility in Urban Communities [PDF]
Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2017 The reasonable planning of emergency shelter in urban communities is one of the important means of disaster prevention. Using the improved Two-Step floating catchment area method and GIS, this paper analyzes the accessibility of emergency shelter in ...
Bo Tang +5 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 With the rapid growth of aging populations in South Korea, it is important to assess spatial accessibility to healthcare resources as older adults may need frequent visits to hospitals.
Jeon-Young Kang +4 more
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Inequalities in Spatial Accessibility of Childcare: The Role of Non-profit Providers [PDF]
, 2021 Equal access to childcare services is a key concern of childcare policy. This article analyses social inequalities in the availability of such services.
Pennerstorfer, Astrid +1 more
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