Accessibility, equity and health care: review and research directions for transport geographers

T Neutens - Journal of Transport Geography, 2015 - Elsevier
Research at the confluence of accessibility, equity and health is flourishing. And yet, there is
only slow and modest progress in terms of improving the spatial and temporal accuracy of …

Defining hard-to-reach populations for vaccination

S Ozawa, TT Yemeke, DR Evans, SE Pallas… - Vaccine, 2019 - Elsevier
Extending the benefits of vaccination to everyone who is eligible requires an understanding
of which populations current vaccination efforts have struggled to reach. A clear definition of …

Geographic accessibility to primary healthcare centers in Mozambique

A dos Anjos Luis, P Cabral - International journal for equity in health, 2016 - Springer
Background Access to healthcare services has an essential role in promoting health equity
and quality of life. Knowing where the places are and how much of the population is covered …

Distance, services, and citizen perceptions of the state in rural Africa

DW Brinkerhoff, A Wetterberg, E Wibbels - Governance, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In most poor countries, basic services in rural areas are less accessible and of lower quality
than those in urban settings. In this article, we investigate the subnational geography of …

Improving the spatial accessibility of healthcare in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Q Pu, EH Yoo, DH Rothstein, S Cairo, L Malemo - Applied Geography, 2020 - Elsevier
Accessibility to healthcare has a direct bearing on the overall well-being of the population.
Poor access to healthcare has serious consequences particularly in low and low-middle …

Geo-located tweets. Enhancing mobility maps and capturing cross-border movement

JI Blanford, Z Huang, A Savelyev, AM MacEachren - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Capturing human movement patterns across political borders is difficult and this difficulty
highlights the need to investigate alternative data streams. With the advent of smart phones …

Spatial access inequities and childhood immunisation uptake in Kenya

NK Joseph, PM Macharia, PO Ouma, J Mumo… - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
Background Poor access to immunisation services remains a major barrier to achieving
equity and expanding vaccination coverage in many sub-Saharan African countries. In …

The effects of geographical accessibility to health facilities on antenatal care and delivery services utilization in Benin: a cross-sectional study

M Tanou, T Kishida, Y Kamiya - Reproductive health, 2021 - Springer
Background The world is making progress toward achieving maternal and child health
(MCH) related components of the Sustainable Development Goals. Nevertheless, the …

The winding road to health: A systematic sco** review on the effect of geographical accessibility to health care on infectious diseases in low-and middle-income …

F Hierink, EA Okiro, A Flahault, N Ray - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Geographical accessibility to healthcare is an important component of
infectious disease dynamics. Timely access to health facilities can prevent disease …

Methods of measuring spatial accessibility to health care in Uganda

P Ouma, PM Macharia, E Okiro, V Alegana - Practicing health geography …, 2021 - Springer
Ensuring everyone has access to health care regardless of demographic, geographic and
social economic status is a key component of universal health coverage. In sub-Saharan …