Modeling population access to New Zealand public hospitals

<p>Abstract</p> <p>This paper demonstrates a method for estimating the geographical accessibility of public hospitals. Cost path analysis was used to determine the minimum travel time and distance to the closest hospital via a road network. This analysis was applied to 38,000 censu...

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Main Authors: Skelly Chris, Brabyn Lars
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2002-11-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
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Online Access:http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/1/1/3