Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

International migration is becoming an increasingly important element of contemporary
demographic dynamics and yet, due to its high volatility, it remains the most unpredictable …

The paper attempts to outline selected theoretical fundamentals of international migration
forecasting. In general, socio-economic predictions can be based either on general laws …

Policies that seek to achieve geographic equity in countries with a National Health Services
(NHS) require information on how to change the distribution of supply to achieve greater …

Interregional patient mobility in a decentralized healthcare system. Regional Studies.
Interregional patient mobility, measured as origin–destination patient flows between any two …

A large number of variables and unpredictable events affect the quality of home care (HC)
services. Changes in patient clinical and social conditions and troubles in service …

As a new service model, home health care can provide effective health care by adopting
door-to-door service. The reasonable arrangements for nurses and their routes not only can …

OBJECTIVES: Acute hospital reconfiguration is often presented as a problem to be solved
by calculations of optimal design, a rational process amenable to influence by open and …

We model the relationship between asylum applications across the EU-15 and three key pull-
force factors, GDP, the recognition rate (grants of refugee status as a percentage of all …

Each year about 20% of the 10 million hospital inpatients in Italy get admitted to hospitals
outside the Local Health Authority of residence. In this paper we carefully explore this …