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 …

Elimination of dog-mediated human rabies deaths by 2030: needs assessment and alternatives for progress based on dog vaccination

RM Wallace, EA Undurraga, JD Blanton… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Background Rabies imposes a substantial burden to about half of the world population. The
World Health Organization (WHO), World Organization for Animal Health, and the Food and …

The impact of traffic on equality of urban healthcare service accessibility: A case study in Wuhan, China

Y **a, H Chen, C Zuo, N Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Accessibility to healthcare services strongly correlates with residents' health. As one of the
objectives of sustainable cities, the social equality of access to healthcare plays a vital role …

Measuring spatial accessibility of health care providers–introduction of a variable distance decay function within the floating catchment area (FCA) method

J Bauer, DA Groneberg - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
We integrated recent improvements within the floating catchment area (FCA) method family
into an integrated 'iFCAmethod. Within this method we focused on the distance decay …

Use of an E2SFCA method to measure and analyse spatial accessibility to medical services for elderly people in Wuhan, China

J Luo, G Chen, C Li, B **a, X Sun, S Chen - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Current studies on measuring the accessibility of medical services for the elderly (AMSE)
have ignored the potential competition among supply and demand and the distance decay …

[HTML][HTML] Operational performance and analysis of two rabies vaccination campaigns in N'Djamena, Chad

M Léchenne, A Oussiguere, K Naissengar… - Vaccine, 2016 - Elsevier
Transmission of rabies from animals to people continues despite availability of good
vaccines for both human and animal use. The only effective strategy to achieve elimination …

Location-allocation and accessibility models for improving the spatial planning of public health services

G Polo, CM Acosta, F Ferreira, RA Dias - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
This study integrated accessibility and location-allocation models in geographic information
systems as a proposed strategy to improve the spatial planning of public health services. To …

Understanding dog aggression: Epidemiologic aspects: In memoriam, Rudy de Meester (1953-2012)

G Polo, N Calderón, S Clothier, RCM Garcia - Journal of Veterinary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract According to the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health
Organization, dog aggression is a major public health problem that affects millions of people …

Correlating access to primary medical care and veterinary care providers: a novel application of spatial gravity modelling

SM Neal - Veterinary Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Access to care is a challenge for both human medicine and animal
medicine. The One Health paradigm recognizes that human, animal, and environmental …

Socioeconomic characteristics and crash injury exposure: A case study in Florida using two-step floating catchment area method

A Kocatepe, MB Ulak, EE Ozguven, MW Horner… - Applied geography, 2017 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to investigate the exposure of different population groups to
severe injury crash hotspots using an empirical-Gaussian two-step floating catchment area …