Measuring spatial accessibility to healthcare services with constraint of administrative boundary: a case study of Yanqing District, Beijing, China

Tao, Zhuolin; Cheng, Yang; Zheng, Qingjing; Li, Guicai

doi:10.1186/s12939-018-0720-5

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Measuring spatial accessibility to healthcare services with constraint of administrative boundary: a case study of Yanqing District, Beijing, China

Published in International Journal for Equity in Health • Jan 15, 2018

Authors:

Zhuolin Tao

Yang Cheng

Qingjing Zheng

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, which is one of the most widely used methods for measuring healthcare spatial accessibility, defines the catchment area of each facility as the area within a certain distance from the facility. However, in some cases, the service utili...

Subject

Beijing

Catchment area

Distance decay

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