Measuring spatial accessibility to primary health care services: Utilising dynamic catchment sizes

Applied Geography

Volumn 54, Issue , 2014, Pages 182-188

  McGrail, Matthew R ^a,b   Humphreys, John S ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

2SFCA method; Access to health care; Health service catchments; Primary health care; Rural health; Spatial accessibility

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; NATIONAL PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SPATIAL DATA;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84906772336     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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