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Accessibility to primary health care in Belgium: an evaluation of policies awarding financial assistance in shortage areas [PDF]
, 2013 Background: In many countries, financial assistance is awarded to physicians who settle in an area that is designated as a shortage area to prevent unequal accessibility to primary health care.
De Weerdt, Yves +3 more
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International Journal of Health Geographics, 2012 Background The two step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method has emerged in the last decade as a key measure of spatial accessibility, particularly in its application to primary health care access.
McGrail Matthew R
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 Spatial accessibility provides significant policy implications, describing the spatial disparity of access and supporting the decision-making process for placing additional infrastructure at adequate locations.
Jinwoo Park, Daniel W. Goldberg
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Spatial access to inpatient health care in northern rural India [PDF]
, 2014 Access to health care in rural areas is a major concern for local populations as well as for policy makers in developing countries. This paper examines spatial access to in-patient health care in northern rural India.
Panda, Pradeep, Ranga, Vikram
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Spatial access to health care:a case study on community health centers in Asmat District, Papua, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2021 In recent decades, access to primary health care has become a crucial issue for health policy planners and researchers. One of the fundamental problems is inequitable access to health care due to imbalanced resource distributions between health care ...
Efriandi, Tri
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Spatial accessibility of home visiting nursing: An exploratory ecological study. [PDF]
Health Sci RepAbstract Background and Aims Japan is one of the oldest societies worldwide and manages a system of care for older adults in the community. In the 2000s, a community‐based integrated care system was introduced to enable older adults to live in their neighborhoods.
Ohashi K +5 more
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Transportation Research Procedia, 2016 Abstract Spatial isolation of the villages from health facilities is a concern in rural areas. Quantifying accessibility to health care helps in interpreting the performance of health care system in a region. Thus in this paper a technique named two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method was used to measure level of accessibility.
Kanuganti, Shalini +2 more
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Geoadria, 2019 Accessibility of postal access points is an important part that service providers, as well as regulatory bodies should consider when planning postal network capacities. This is important for the provision of the universal postal service.
Katarina Mostarac +2 more
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Comparing GIS-based measures in access to mammography and their validity in predicting neighborhood risk of late-stage breast cancer. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Assessing neighborhood environment in access to mammography remains a challenge when investigating its contextual effect on breast cancer-related outcomes.
Min Lian +2 more
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Measuring Primary Health Care Accessibility in Mississippi State Using an Extended Kernel Density 2SFCA Method [PDF]
, 2015 The accessibility of primary health care is fundamentally important to people’s life quality and wellbeing. Based on the block group level 2010 census data from the U.S.
Zhang, Lijie
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