Rural transportation infrastructure in low-and middle-income countries: a review of impacts, implications, and interventions

N Kaiser, CK Barstow - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The rural transport infrastructure sector is a critical force for sustainable development that is
interwoven with many other sectors. Rural transportation is an underlying driver of many of …

Spatial accessibility of primary health care in China: a case study in Sichuan Province

X Wang, H Yang, Z Duan, J Pan - Social Science & Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Access to primary health care is considered a fundamental right and an important facilitator
of overall population health. Township health centers (THCs) and Community health centers …

How can the spatial equity of health services be defined and measured? A systematic review of spatial equity definitions and methods

J Whitehead, A L. Pearson… - Journal of health …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Spatial equity analysis has been carried out in a variety of contexts and on a
range of health services. However, there is no clear consensus on spatial equity definitions …

The approaches to measuring the potential spatial access to urban health services revisited: distance types and aggregation-error issues

P Apparicio, J Gelb, AS Dubé, S Kingham… - International journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Background The potential spatial access to urban health services is an important issue in
health geography, spatial epidemiology and public health. Computing geographical …

Measuring the accessibility and spatial equity of urban services under competition using the cumulative opportunities measure

K Kelobonye, H Zhou, G McCarney, JC Xia - Journal of Transport …, 2020 - Elsevier
As accessibility becomes an increasingly relevant concept in the analysis of sustainable
transport and urban development, the accuracy of accessibility measures becomes …

The impact of traffic on equality of urban healthcare service accessibility: A case study in Wuhan, China

Y Xia, H Chen, C Zuo, N Zhang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Accessibility to healthcare services strongly correlates with residents' health. As one of the
objectives of sustainable cities, the social equality of access to healthcare plays a vital role …

Measuring the urban sustainable development in cities through a Composite Index: The case of Portugal

M Rodrigues, M Franco - Sustainable Development, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study aims to systematize indicators and indices that allow measurement sustainable
development in cities and towns (economic, social, and environmental). It is one dimension …

Climate change and water-related threats in the Indian Sundarbans: food security and management implications

P Datta, B Behera, DB Rahut - International Journal of Water …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Based on a desk review and three rounds of the Delphi method, this study examines the
impacts of climate change-induced water-related threats on food security in the Indian …

An age‐integrated approach to improve measurement of potential spatial accessibility to emergency medical services for urban areas

S Hashtarkhani, B Kiani, R Bergquist… - … journal of health …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: This study aimed to develop an age‐included approach to measure the potential
accessibility to Emergency medical services (EMS) across urban and suburban areas of …

Strategic planning for smart city development: assessing spatial inequalities in the basic service provision of metropolitan cities

M Du, X Zhang, L Mora - Sustainable Smart City Transitions, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Spatial inequality in basic service provision is a key challenge for smart city development
strategies. With a focus on walkable accessibility, this paper proposes a new methodological …