Geographical pattern evolution of health resources in China: spatio-temporal dynamics and spatial mismatch

Y Zhou, K Zhao, J Han, S Zhao, J Cao - Tropical Medicine and Infectious …, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The rational allocation of limited medical resources is the premise of
safeguarding the public health. Especially since the outbreak of COVID-19, the evolution …

Equilibrium of tiered healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a case study of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province

X Wu, R Mao, X Guo - … Journal of Environmental Research and Public …, 2022 - mdpi.com
COVID-19 has caused more than 500 million infections and 6 million deaths. Due to a
continuous shortage of medical resources, COVID-19 has raised alarm about medical and …

Regional disparity and patients mobility: benefits and spillover effects of the spatial network structure of the health services in China

L Fu, K Xu, F Liu, L Liang, Z Wang - International journal of environmental …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Background: The distribution of medical resources in China is seriously imbalanced due to
imbalanced economic development in the country; unbalanced distribution of medical …

Mapping the inequalities of medical resource provision in China

H Liu, C Fang, Y Fan - Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The outbreak of COVID-19 exposed the shortage of medical resources and the imbalance
between cities in China. To better reveal this inequality, this study uses cartograms and half …

Estimating the spatial correlation and convergence of China's healthcare resources allocation: evidence from the Yangtze River Delta Region

Y Shen, Z Sun - Archives of Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background China's imbalanced allocation of healthcare resources mainly arises from
urban–rural and intercity differences, the solution of which has been the goal of reforms …

Spatial analysis and evaluation of medical resource allocation in China based on geographic big data

S Wan, Y Chen, Y Xiao, Q Zhao, M Li, S Wu - BMC health services …, 2021 - Springer
Background Spatial allocation of medical resources is closely related to people's health.
Thus, it is important to evaluate the abundance of medical resources regionally and explore …

Spatial pattern and spatial heterogeneity of chinese elite hospitals: A Country-Level analysis

B Shi, Y Fu, X Bai, X Zhang, J Zheng, Y Wang… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Elite hospitals represent the highest level of Chinese hospitals in medical service and
management, medical quality and safety, technical level and efficiency, which are also one …

Examining the urban and rural healthcare progress in big cities of China: analysis of monitoring data in Dalian from 2008 to 2017

Y Qiu, W Lu, J Guo, C Sun, X Liu - International journal of environmental …, 2020 - mdpi.com
How to effectively reduce the disparity between urban and rural medical healthcare has
become a major global concern. In China, the government has issued a series of reform …

Research on the equity and optimal allocation of basic medical services in Guangzhou in the context of COVID-19

J Li, J Li, J Huang - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Optimizing the allocation of basic medical services and ensuring their equity are necessary
to improve the ability to respond to public health emergencies and promote health equity in …

Divergent distributions of physicians and healthcare beds in China: Changing patterns, driving forces, and policy implications

X Yan, S He, C Webster, M Yu - Applied Geography, 2022 - Elsevier
The distributions of different healthcare resources are typically examined individually and
separately, thus overlooking the fundamental fact that healthcare delivery hinges on the …