Measures of Spatial Accessibility to Health Care in a GIS Environment: Synthesis and a Case Study in the Chicago Region

@article{Luo2003MeasuresOS,
  title={Measures of Spatial Accessibility to Health Care in a GIS Environment: Synthesis and a Case Study in the Chicago Region},
  author={Wei Luo and Fahui Wang},
  journal={Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design},
  year={2003},
  volume={30},
  pages={865 - 884}
}
  • W. LuoFahui Wang
  • Published 1 December 2003
  • Medicine
  • Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design
This article synthesizes two GIS-based accessibility measures into one framework, and applies the methods to examining spatial accessibility to primary health care in the Chicago ten-county region. The floating catchment area (FCA) method defines the service area of physicians by a threshold travel time while accounting for the availability of physicians by their surrounded demands. The gravity-based method considers a nearby physician more accessible than a remote one and discounts a physician… 
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