Advancing the frontiers of geographic accessibility to healthcare services

Peter M. Macharia; Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas; Lenka Beňová

doi:10.1038/s43856-023-00391-w

Communications Medicine (Nov 2023)

Advancing the frontiers of geographic accessibility to healthcare services

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

Affiliations

Peter M. Macharia: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine
Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas: Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Lenka Beňová: Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00391-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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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.

Published in Communications Medicine

ISSN: 2730-664X (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsmed/

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