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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A comparison of floating catchment area parameters with applications to a dataset of clinics enrolled in a statewide child and adolescent psychiatric consultation program. [PDF]
Front Public HealthIntroductionHealthcare resources are often crucial but limited, requiring careful consideration and informed allocation based on population needs and potential healthcare access.
Hunyadi J +7 more
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An Improved Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) Method for Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Elderly Care Facilities in Xi'an, China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 With the continuous aging of society, the demand among elderly citizens for care facilities is increasing. The accessibility of elderly care facilities is a significant indicator for evaluating whether the layout of urban elderly care facilities is reasonable, and research on the spatial accessibility of related facilities has become an important ...
Liu L, Lyu H, Zhao Y, Zhou D.
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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]
Prev Med RepObjective: 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 ...
Campbell JE +6 more
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Gravity models for potential spatial healthcare access measurement: a systematic methodological review. [PDF]
Int J Health Geogr, 2023 Background Quantifying spatial access to care—the interplay of accessibility and availability—is vital for healthcare planning and understanding implications of services (mal-)distribution.
Stacherl B, Sauzet O.
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Multi-Mode Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2SFCA) Method to Measure the Potential Spatial Accessibility of Healthcare Services [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 While great progress in the development of a methodological approach to measure the accessibility of healthcare services has been made, the exclusion of the complex multi-mode travel behavior of urban residents and a rough calculation of travel costs ...
Jianhua Ni +4 more
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Disparities in spatial accessibility of primary care in Louisiana: From physical to virtual accessibility [PDF]
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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Digital divides in telehealth accessibility for cancer care in the United States. [PDF]
NPJ Digit MedTelehealth has been promoted as a solution to spatial healthcare access barriers, yet its role in addressing cancer care disparities remains uncertain, particularly in the context of digital divides in broadband availability and affordability. This study
Liu L +7 more
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The index of rural access: an innovative integrated approach for measuring primary care access [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2009 Background The problem of access to health care is of growing concern for rural and remote populations. Many Australian rural health funding programs currently use simplistic rurality or remoteness classifications as proxy measures of access.
McGrail Matthew R, Humphreys John S
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Measuring Accessibility to Medical Centers in Isfahan City Using 2SFCA Method [PDF]
جغرافیا و برنامهریزی محیطی, 2023 One of the most important challenges facing policymakers and urban planners in recent decades is the issue of accessibility to a variety of urban services. The main purpose of this study was thecalculation of the accessibility of census blocks to medical
Ansar Gholami +3 more
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