Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Macharia, Peter M.
• Banke-Thomas, Aduragbemi
• Beňová, Lenka

Titel

Advancing the frontiers of geographic accessibility to healthcare services

Ist Teil von

• Communications medicine, 2023-11, Vol.3 (1), p.158-158, Article 158

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Assessing geographic accessibility to healthcare is essential to identify communities that have been left behind. Smartphone mobility data now enables the study of healthcare accessibility over a global scale, providing estimates of actual travel times to access care. Macharia et al. discuss a Communications Medicine article on global healthcare accessibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. They outline strengths in the comprehensive approach taken to studying revealed versus potential spatial accessibility, plus some limitations and wider context with which the results can be interpreted.