The approaches to measuring the potential spatial access to urban health services revisited: Distance types and aggregation-error issues

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Apparicio, Philippe ^a   Gelb, Jérémy ^a   Dubé, Anne Sophie ^b   Kingham, Simon ^c   Gauvin, Lise ^b   Robitaille, Éric ^b,d  

^a CENTRE URBANISATION CULTURE SOCIÉTÉ   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessibility of health services; Cartesian distance; GIS; Network distances; Sensitivity analysis; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; QUEBEC; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAVEL;

BIAS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; QUEBEC; TRAVEL; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 85027960565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-017-0105-9     Document Type: Article

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