This paper examines the geographical variations in access to health care in rural Ireland using the static components of SMILE a spatial microsimulation model. The static spatial microsimulation components of SMILE are combined with accessibility measures in a GIS to provide an indication of health care accessibility in rural Ireland. Using accessibility parameters, and health care utilisation ...

This research explores the accessibility issues with regard to the e-commerce websites in developing countries, through a subjective study of Sri Lankan hotel websites. A web survey and a web content analysis were conducted as the methods to elicit data on web accessibility. Factors preventing accessibility were hypothesized as an initial experiment. Hazardous design elements are identified thr...

The National Primary Health Care Strategy in Australia recommends primary health care services need to be clinically and culturally appropriate and delivered in a timely and affordable manner. However simultaneously recognised, access is still inequitable in among various population groups and many areas of Australia. Geographical Information System (GIS) have been used to explore geographical ...

BACKGROUND Unintentional injury is a major cause of death across the globe. The accessibility to emergency medical services may affect the rate of preventable trauma deaths. The purpose of this study was to analyze the accessibility to emergency medical hospitals in municipalities in Japan and to clarify whether accessibility was associated with the mortality rate attributed to unintentional in...

This study explores the spatial inequality of job accessibility in urban China, focusing on geographical skills mismatch Shanghai. Our results suggest that should be a critical concern measuring because villages create residential sites for low-skill workers central Based index considering mismatch, floating population has high periphery area there are affordable housing prices. The distributio...

Geographic accessibility of health services is one the key dimensions affecting care access, utilisation and may impact population health. We analysed countrywide space-time to primary by private car multimodal walk-ride-walk travel chains public transport in Finland. The analysis utilises register-based grid cell data at 250m × 250 m resolution, road network with scheduled geocoded locations f...

BACKGROUND Urban environments can influence many aspects of health and well-being and access to health care is one of them. Access to primary health care (PHC) in urban settings is a pressing research and policy issue in Canada. Most research on access to healthcare is focused on national and provincial levels in Canada; there is a need to advance current understanding to local scales such as n...