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Spatial accessibility of primary health care utilising the two step floating catchment area method: an assessment of recent improvements

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, November 2012
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Title
Spatial accessibility of primary health care utilising the two step floating catchment area method: an assessment of recent improvements
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, November 2012
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-11-50
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Authors

Matthew R McGrail

Abstract

The two step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method has emerged in the last decade as a key measure of spatial accessibility, particularly in its application to primary health care access. Many recent 'improvements' to the original 2SFCA method have been developed, which generally either account for distance-decay within a catchment or enable the usage of variable catchment sizes. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of various proposed methods within these two improvement groups. Moreover, its assessment focuses on how well these improvements operate within and between rural and metropolitan populations over large geographical regions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 312 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 57 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 17%
Researcher 53 16%
Student > Bachelor 19 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 5%
Other 59 18%
Unknown 66 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 53 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 43 13%
Engineering 27 8%
Environmental Science 24 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 21 6%
Other 69 21%
Unknown 88 27%
Attention Score in Context

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