Health geographers have generally been content to adopt measures of distance, access
and the lack of resources as the metrics of social (in) justice without critically placing their …

Patient satisfaction is a key quality indicator of pharmacy service. However, there are few
studies that develop and validate patient satisfaction surveys applied to pharmaceutical …

Background Roemer's Law, a widely cited principle in health care policy, states that hospital
beds that are built tend to be used. This simple but powerful expression has been invoked to …

Importance The association between proximity to health care facilities and improved disease
management and population health has been documented, but little is known about small …

Neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES), an overall marker of neighborhood conditions,
may determine residents' access to health care, independently of their own individual …

Background Patient satisfaction with pharmaceutical care can be a strong predictor of
medication and other health-related outcomes. Less understood is the role that location of …

In Portugal the distribution of physicians is considered an appropriate proxy for the
distribution of the actual hospital resources and additional information on hospital supply is …

The primary aspect of socioeconomic development is health. One of the most important
factors influencing health care utilization and access is the accessibility of health services …

Purpose Geographic access to physicians has been shown to be unevenly distributed in the
USA, with those in closer proximity having superior outcomes. The purpose of this study was …

Background Although expected to act as gate-keeping primary care providers, as community
health service (CHS) facilities are severely under-utilized; Chinese people in both rural and …