Evaluation of access to health care in rural areas using enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method

Kanuganti, Shalini; Sarkar, Anish; Singh, Ajit Pratap

doi:10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.08.011

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“…2SFCA was first proposed by Radke and Mu [36]. Many scholars have improved and extended 2SFCA in recent years to form a huge family of two-step mobile search methods [37][38][39]. Broadly, 2SFCA is employed by moving the search twice within a certain range threshold based on the supply point and demand point, and then summing up the supply and demand ratios to determine accessibility of the demand point.…”

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Spatial Accessibility to Hospitals Based on Web Mapping API: An Empirical Study in Kaifeng, China

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The accessibility of hospital facilities is of great importance not only for maintaining social stability, but also for protecting the basic human right to health care. Traditional accessibility research often lacks consideration of the dynamic changes in transport costs and does not reflect the actual travel time of urban residents, which is critical to time-sensitive hospital services. To avoid these defects, this study considered the city of Kaifeng, China, as an empirical case, and directly acquired travel time data for two travel modes to the hospital in different time periods through web mapping API (Application Program Interface). Further, based on travel time calculations, we compared five baseline indicators. For the last indicator, we used the optimal weighted accessibility model to measure hospital accessibility for each residential area. The study discovered significant differences in the frequency and spatial distribution of hospital accessibility using public transit and self-driving modes of transportation. In addition, there is an imbalance between accessibility travel times in the study area and the number of arrivals at hospitals. In particular, different modes of transportation and different travel periods also have a certain impact on accessibility of medical treatment. The research results shed new light on the accessibility of urban public facilities and provide a scientific basis with which local governments can optimize the spatial structure of hospital resources.

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“…This method is intuitive while retaining the advantages of a gravity based model [ 18 ]. The 2SFCA method has been utilized in a variety of recent studies to measure healthcare services accessibility, e.g., measuring the accessibility of healthcare centers for villagers living in the Indian Alwar district of Rajasthan, the spatial accessibility of primary care physicians and mammography centers for women with breast cancer in the American Appalachian region, and the spatial accessibility of primary healthcare services for Australians [ 33 , 34 , 35 ]. However, caution is needed while using the method since it makes the unrealistic assumption of equal accessibility for all population living within each catchment area [ 4 ].…”

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Geographical Accessibility of Community Health Assist Scheme General Practitioners for the Elderly Population in Singapore: A Case Study on the Elderly Living in Housing Development Board Flats

Deborah

Chiu

Cao

2018

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Accessible primary healthcare is important to national healthcare in general and for older persons in particular, in societies where the population is ageing rapidly, as in Singapore. However, although much policy and research efforts have been put into this area, we hardly find any spatial perspective to assess the accessibility of these primary healthcare services. This paper analyzes the geographical accessibility of one major healthcare service in Singapore, namely, General Practitioners (GPs) services under the Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) for older persons. A Python script was developed to filter the website data of the Housing Development Board (HDB) of Singapore. The data derived was comprehensively analyzed by an Enhanced 2-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) method based on a Gaussian distance-decay function and the GIS technique. This enabled the identification of areas with relatively weak geographical accessibility of CHAS-GPs. The findings are discussed along with suggestions for health practitioners, service planners and policy makers. Despite its initial nature, this study has demonstrated the value of innovative approaches in data collection and processing for the elderly-related studies, and contributed to the field of healthcare services optimization and possibly to other human services.

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“…In the accessibility business field, the accessibility of healthcare is a multifaceted field that involves primary healthcare (Tanser, Gijsbertsen, & Herbst, 2006), access to healthcare in rural areas (Schoeps, Gabrysch, Niamba, Sié, & Becher, 2011) (Kanuganti, Sarkar, & Singh, 2016), the cross-border spatial accessibility of health care (Mathon, Apparicio, & Lachapelle, 2018), the spatial equity of multilevel healthcare (S. Zhang, Song, Wei, & Deng, 2019), hospital care and emergency medical services (Wenyan Hu et al, 2018;T. Xia et al, 2019), and mental health in childhood and adolescence (Nordbø, Nordh, Raanaas, & Aamodt, 2018).…”

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Measuring spatiotemporal accessibility for pediatric clinical services with multimodal transport modes: an exploratory analysis in Nanjing, China

Zhou¹,

Li²,

Chen³

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Background: Healthcare accessibility research is developing towards a focus on multimodal transport modes (MTM) and spatiotemporal variation. Dynamic traffic conditions lead residents to make distinct traveling decisions in different timepoints, which has an impact on the spatiotemporal accessibility of healthcare. Pediatric clinic services (PCS) are one of the typical healthcare services that require a diagnosis through a professional physician clinic.Results: This paper aims to examine a methodological framework for the spatiotemporal accessibility of PCS (STA-PCS) and obtains its spatiotemporal variation characteristics. We design a spatial time impedance of multimodal transport modes (STI-MTM) model, which considers residential transport mode choices and adopt a gravity model based on web mapping data and population spatial distribution data to measure STA-PCS. We selected Nanjing, China, as the study area to estimate the STA-PCS value at four timepoints. The results indicate that the spatial aggregate of PCS is evident, and dynamic traffic factors influence the volatility of STA-PCS.Conclusions: This work holds pragmatic implications for policymakers on the STA-PCS considered travel characteristics based on georeferenced social media data.

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Evaluation of access to health care in rural areas using enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method

Cited by 67 publications

References 20 publications

Spatial Accessibility to Hospitals Based on Web Mapping API: An Empirical Study in Kaifeng, China

Spatial Accessibility to Hospitals Based on Web Mapping API: An Empirical Study in Kaifeng, China

Geographical Accessibility of Community Health Assist Scheme General Practitioners for the Elderly Population in Singapore: A Case Study on the Elderly Living in Housing Development Board Flats

Measuring spatiotemporal accessibility for pediatric clinical services with multimodal transport modes: an exploratory analysis in Nanjing, China

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