Urban and rural disparities in general hospital accessibility within a Chinese metropolis

X Du, Y Du, Y Zhang, Y Zhu, Y Yang - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Accessibility is one of the crucial criteria for measuring the ease of access to public services
in a region. Given China's historical rural–urban dualism and rapid urbanization process …

Beyond accessibility: a multidimensional evaluation of urban park equity in yangzhou, China

Z Li, Z Liang, L Feng, Z Fan - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evaluating park equity can help guide the advancement of sustainable and equitable space
policies. Previous studies have mainly considered accessibility when evaluating park equity …

Measuring the dynamic accessibility to COVID-19 testing sites in the 15-min city: A focus on service congestion and mobility difference

Y Chen, S Jia, Q Xu, Z **ao, S Zhang - Journal of transport geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Accessibility to essential amenities such as food and health is crucial for all individuals and
is the key to realizing the goal of the 15-min city. However, so far, few studies have fully …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial access to continuous maternal and perinatal health care services in low-resource settings: cross-sectional study

Q Li, E Kanduma, I Ramiro, D Xu… - JMIR Public Health …, 2024 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background Maternal and perinatal health are fundamental to human development.
However, in low-resource settings such as sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), significant challenges …

Healthcare seeking behavior among patients visiting public primary and secondary healthcare facilities in an urban Indian district: A cross-sectional quantitative …

N Fatma, V Ramamohan - PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In this work, we examined healthcare seeking behavior (HSB) of patients visiting public
healthcare facilities in an urban context. We conducted a cross-sectional survey across …

Responding to “city cooling action”: Assessing and visualizing community-level urban park cooling service performance in Nan**g, China

Z Liang, H Liu, W Zhou, M Wang, Z Wei, Z Fan… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Although previous studies have confirmed the urban park cooling effects (UPCE), it is
unclear how their cooling services are connected to and equitably distributed among users …

An Optimization Method for Equalizing the Spatial Accessibility of Medical Services in Guangzhou

M Yu, Y Fu, W Liu - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spatial equality of medical services refers to equal access to medical services in all regions.
Currently, research on medical facility planning focuses mainly on efficiency, and less on …

More Urban Elderly Care Facilities Should Be Placed in Densely Populated Areas for an Aging Wuhan of China

Z Wang, X Wang, Z Dong, L Li, W Li, S Li - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global aging is getting worse, especially in China, a country with a large population. It is
urgently needed to plan the site of new urban elderly care facilities for an aging society …

Spatial and social inequality of hierarchical healthcare accessibility in urban system: A case study in Shanghai, China

R Su, X Huang, R Chen, X Guo - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
Urbanization is intensifying in cities, accompanied by burgeoning inequalities, notably in the
healthcare sector. Limited research offers a granular examination of healthcare resource …

Extending floating catchment area methods to estimate future hospital bed capacity requirements

D Fowler, P Middleton, S Lim - Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, 2022 - Elsevier
A new hospital in north-west Sydney, Australia is to start construction in the year 2023.
However, the number of emergency department beds/treatment spaces (EDBs) that it will …