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

By Wei Luo, Fahui Wang. Environment and Planning, B: Planning and Design, 2003

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Health, Transportation

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1. Y. Qi
2. Bin Zou
3. Neng Wan
4. Troy Sternberg
5. Wei Luo
6. Fahui Wang
7. Q. Tang
8. Enrica Papa

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1. Y. Qi
2. Wei Luo
3. Bin Zou
4. Neng Wan
5. Troy Sternberg
6. Q. Tang
7. Fahui Wang
8. Enrica Papa

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1. Y. Qi
2. Bin Zou
3. Neng Wan
4. Troy Sternberg
5. Wei Luo
6. Fahui Wang
7. Q. Tang
8. Enrica Papa

Citations in the corpus

• An enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method for measuring spatial accessibility to primary care physicians. (2009, methodology): “Just as 2SFCA has proven to be a special case of the gravity model, where the friction-of-distance exponent equals 1 in the catchment and 0 outside ( Luo and Wang, 2003b ), E2SFCA is also a special case of gravity model.”
• A three-step floating catchment area method for analyzing spatial access to health services (2012, methodology): “An improvement of the basic gravity model is the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method, which was first proposed by Radke and Mu (2000), modified by Luo and Wang (2003), and recently enhanced by Luo and Qi (2009).”
• Accessibility and Transit-Oriented Development in European metropolitan areas (2015, positive): “…this, we performed a sensitivity analysis to determine how commuting times affected variation in estimated cumulative accessibility and seven thresholds ranging between 20 and 50 min (with an increment of 5 min) were tested using the same threshold already tested elsewhere (Luo and Wang, 2003).”
• Spatial effects of accessibility to parks on housing prices in Shenzhen, China (2017, methodology): “In this study, the coefficient b is set to 2 based on previous studies (Arbia & Petrarca, 2013; Luo & Wang, 2003; Peeters & Thomas, 2000).”
• Comparing GIS-Based Methods of Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Health Services (2006, methodology): “To predict access to social programs, Radke and Mu [7] developed the two-step floating catchment area method (2SFCA), the term coined by Luo and Wang [8].”
• Assessing spatial and nonspatial factors for healthcare access: towards an integrated approach to defining health professional shortage areas. (2005, background): “For example, Khan (1992) and Luo and Wang (2003) focused on spatial access to healthcare; Carr-Hill et al. (1994) and Field (2000) emphasized nonspatial factors.”
• Evaluating equity and accessibility to jobs by public transport across Canada (2018, background): “While most scholars focus on measuring accessibility to jobs, accessibility has also been calculated to health care facilities, schools, grocery stores, and a myriad of other opportunities (Bissonnette et al., 2012; Grengs, 2015; Guagliardo, 2004; Luo and Wang, 2003; Mao and Nekorchuk, 2013; Páez et”
• Planning toward Equal Accessibility to Services: A Quadratic Programming Approach (2013, methodology): “The original study (Luo and Wang, 2003) showed much higher accessibility scores in the central city than in the suburban areas.”
• Measurement, Optimization, and Impact of Health Care Accessibility: A Methodological Review (2012, neutral): “Luo and Wang (2003) developed the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method to measure spatial access.”