Measuring national accessibility to cardiac services using geographic information systems

Applied Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 445-455

  Coffee, Neil ^a   Turner, Dorothy ^b   Clark, Robyn A ^a,c   Eckert, Kerena ^d   Coombe, David ^e   Hugo, Graeme ^b   van Gaans, Deborah ^b   Wilkinson, David ^f   Stewart, Simon ^g   Tonkin, Andrew A ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^e Government of South Australia   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^g BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^h MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accessibility modelling; Cardiac accessibility; GIS; GIS modelling; Health modelling

Indexed keywords

ARIA;

EID: 84857298907     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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