Measuring spatial accessibility of health care providers-introduction of a variable distance decay function within the floating catchment area (FCA) method

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Bauer, Jan ^a   Groneberg, David A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CATCHMENT; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; SOUND; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GERMANY; HEALTH MANPOWER; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84978705902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159148     Document Type: Article

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