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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Geographic accessibility"”.
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Proximity and Prenatal Care: Geographic Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities in N’Djamena, Chad
… maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Yet, accessibility to healthcare facilities remains an understudied challenge in many sub-Saharan African countries. This study examines the spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities in N’Djamena, Chad, across various transportation modes, as well …
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Looking at the Map, Together: Modeling Treatment Center Location Selection and its Effects on Access to Gene Therapy in Brazil
… and how these approaches would affect patients’ geographic accessibility to treatment. We focus on Brazil and a specific gene therapy product as our case study. We interview local pharmaceutical company employees to understand the stakeholders involved in this decision and the approaches being …
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Financing medicine's last mile in Uganda : exploring linkages between patient access to medicine and supply chain access to finance
… affordability, on-shelf availability, and geographic accessibility-and how each might be affected by supply chain financing. For payment affordability, we leverage field data via interviews with two distributors, two wholesalers and ten retail pharmacies in Uganda. We use the data to model …
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Evaluating data classification methods for choropleth maps in South Africa : a usability study
… rapidly over the past decade. Today, most geographic information system (GIS) software has a plethora of built-in spatial analysis and visualisation techniques that enable users to quickly and effortlessly visualise spatial patterns in data. Choropleth maps are among the oldest and still …
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Towards universal health coverage: mapping the development of the faith-based non-profit sector in the Ghanaian health system
… distribution of services and how this relates to geographic accessibility and the achievement of UHC is limited. This study explores this in Ghana, a country with a large FBNP sector, mostly networked under the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) which has an influential and now …
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Middle Parks: Development of State and Provincial Parks in the United States and Canada, 1890-1990
… their park development priorities to accommodate geographic accessibility over economic viability. In both cases, preservation was not the primary objective of park development. The timelines demonstrate that preservation did not become a priority of any of the park systems until the 1980s. This …
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Adult Re-Entry Students: Experiences Preceding Entry into a Rural Appalachian Community College.
… colleges offer financial, academic, and geographic accessibility making them a viable option for adults seeking to re-enter education (Cohen & Brawer, 1996).</p><p>The purpose of this study was to learn more about the life transitions that precipitate entry into a community college. The …
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Exploring Factors Influencing Children's Use of a Free Recreation Access Pass: Does Geography Matter?
… to participant knowledge, economic means, and geographic access. Spatial analysis found both hot and cold spot clusters of pass use, and logistic regression modelling found sex, recruitment method, and parental support significantly influenced use of the G5AP. Findings support development of PA …
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Urban-Rural Disparities in Access to Covid-19 Testing Sites: The Impact of Funding Cuts in the Capital Region of Florida
… in relation to social vulnerability factors. The geographic scale for these analyses is at the census tract level. To accomplish these objectives, I (1) generated SoVI to measure social vulnerability, (2) calculated the drive-times from the population-weighted centroids of each census tract to the …