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Built Environment, Well Being , and Active Living
Executive Summary. Budget pressures are causing governments to
review health care policy. The new trend in health policy,
exemplified by the Evans-Stoddart or Mustard-Frank approaches,
puts more emphasis on social and physical environments than
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Crowley, Walt. To Serve the Greatest Number: A History of Group Health
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Applied-Economics. 1998; 30(9): 1259-1267
Medicare home health care plays an important role in providing cost
effective care for the chronically ill and elderly. Long seen as a cost
effective substitute for nursing home care, home care has become even
more important with expenditures increasing by 31.4% from 1990 to 1996.
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Barriers to health care access and utilization among Vietnamese Americans
in southern California.
Health-and-Place. 1995. 1(2), pp 91-99.
The objective of this study was to collect data on barriers to health
care utilization and access among Vietnamese residents of southern
California, and to assess the current influence of acculturation on
acquisition of health care.
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Social-Science-and-Medicine. 1994. 39(5), pp 687-699.
Based upon a large-scale survey of almost 1600 individuals, examines a
sub-sample of working-age adults who have identified themselves as
injured or ill during the four weeks prior to being interviewed. Very few
individual-level factors are related to the use of services when ill or
injured. Only gender (female) and employment in state-run enterprises are
associated with higher patterns of use.
HENRY, NORAH F., (Editors: Frazier,-J.W.; Epstein,-B.J.),
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Examines some socio-spatial dimensions of health seeking behavior in an
urban elderly population. Use of multifunction locations for health
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Laires, M.F., M.J.Ladeira, and J.P.Christensen, eds., Health in the
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Impact of rural hospital closures in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Social-Science-and-Medicine. 2001; 52(12): 1793-1804
Canada's health care system has undergone major changes since 1990. In
Saskatchewan, 52 small rural hospitals funded for less than eight beds
stopped receiving funding for acute care services in 1993. Most were
subsequently converted to primary health care centers. Since then,
concerns have been raised about the impact of the changes on rural
residents' access to care, their health status, and the viability of
rural communities.
Lovett-A.; Haynes-R.; Sunnenberg-G.; Gale-S.,
Car travel time and accessibility by bus to general practitioner services:
A study using patient registers and GIS.
Social-Science-and-Medicine. 2002; 55(1): 97-111
"Information from patient registers was combined
with details of general practitioner surgery locations, road network
characteristics, bus routes and community transport services, and a
geographical information system (GIS) was used to calculate measures of
accessibility to surgeries by public and private transport."
Lowe, J.M. and A.Sen, Gravity Model Applications in Health Planning:
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The impact of primary health care services on under-five mortality in
rural Niger.
International-Journal-of-Epidemiology. 1996. 25/3, 568-577.
Health service use and under-five mortality rates for children born in the
5 years prior to a 1985 survey are compared for three groups of villages:
villages served by a dispensary, villages served by village health teams
(VHT), and villages without access to modern primary care services.
Malczewski, J.; Ogryczak,-W.
An interactive approach to the central facility location problem:
locating pediatric hospitals in Warsaw.
Geographical Analysis. 1990. 22(3), pp 244-258.
Most of the conventional approaches to the central facility location
problem neglect the interaction of analyst and decision-maker during the
locational choice process. This paper presents a new interactive approach
to the central facility location problem.
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Mason, James,
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The road to the asylum: Institutions, distance and the administration of
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The importance of space and distance in the development of social and
political institutions ...
important methodological and epistemological questions as well as
substantive empirical issues about the impact of distance on the
provision of medical services over time. This essay reviews this
literature with particular reference to the debate about the capacity of
distance-decay models to explain the varied use made of lunatic asylums in
the nineteenth century.
Norris, Jack. "Health Care," Ch.8, Gilbert Castle, ed., Profiting from A
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Oppong,-J.-R.; Hodgson,-M.-J.
Spatial accessibility to health care facilities in Suhum District, Ghana.
Professional Geographer. 1994. 46(2), pp 199-209.
To improve geographical accessibility to health facilities in rural
Ghana, it has been recommended that additional health facilities be
built. Resource constraints made this recommendation infeasible. Using
location-allocation models, this paper demonstrates that in the Suhum
District of Ghana substantial improvements in accessibility can be
achieved with better locational choices and without additional
facilities.
Panfila-Ching,
User fees, demand for children's health care and access across income
groups: the Philippine case.
Social-Science-and-Medicine. 1995. 41(1), pp 37-46.
This paper examines the potential effects of user fees on the demand for
child health care across income groups. A mixed/conditional logit model
of provider choice is estimated using national data from the Philippines.
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The effects of rationing home-help services in Spain and Sweden: A
comparative analysis.
Ageing and Society. 1999; 19(3): 343-361
In both Spain and Sweden the most important public support for older
people that is provided in their own homes are home-help services. In
Sweden, these programmes were expanded in years of economic growth but
recently have radically declined. Spain still strives to expand them in
spite of financial problems. Both countries ration these services but in
different ways.
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The development of Ontario's home care program: a critical geographical
analysis.
Social-Science-and-Medicine. 1996. 42/6, 937-948.
Using existing evaluations, an historical analysis of home care programs
in Ontario (Canada's largest and most populous province) informs how
developments in long-term health care policy have contributed to the
geographical inequalities that exist in home care services throughout the
province.
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