Measures of Spatial Accessibility to Health Care in a GIS Environment: Synthesis and a Case Study in the Chicago Region

Luo, Wei; Wang, Fahui

doi:10.1068/b29120

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Measures of Spatial Accessibility to Health Care in a GIS Environment: Synthesis and a Case Study in the Chicago Region

Published in Environment and Planning B Planning and Design • Dec 1, 2003

Authors:

Wei Luo

Fahui Wang

Abstract

This article synthesizes two GIS-based accessibility measures into one framework, and applies the methods to examining spatial accessibility to primary healthcare in the Chicago 10-county region. The floating catchment area method defines the service area of physicians by a threshold travel time whi...

Subject

Census

Economic shortage

Catchment area

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