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Spatial Accessibility Of Health Care In Indiana

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  • Eda UNAL
  • Susan E. CHEN
  • Brigitte S. WALDORF

    (Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Purdue University)

Abstract

Healthy populations and access to health care services are significant factors influencing economic development and prosperity. Since geographic access is an essential feature of an overall health system, it is important for health service researchers to develop accurate measures of physical access to health. In this paper we develop a series of gravity-based health care accessibility measures for all the counties in Indiana. The measures go beyond local availability of health care services within a county and account for travel impedance via distance-discounted health care services accessible throughout the state. When applied to Indiana counties, the results show sharp disparities in health care accessibility with extensive pockets of poor accessibility in rural and peripheral areas. The research concludes with a demonstration of how spatial accessibility measures can be beneficially used to evaluate of policies indicative of changes in the provision of health services.

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  • Eda UNAL & Susan E. CHEN & Brigitte S. WALDORF, 2007. "Spatial Accessibility Of Health Care In Indiana," Working Papers 07-07, Purdue University, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:pae:wpaper:07-07
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    1. Felipa de Mello-Sampayo, 2020. "Spatial Interaction Model for Healthcare Accessibility: What Scale Has to Do with It," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-19, May.
    2. Breisinger, Clemens & Ecker, Olivier & Funes, Jose & Yu, Bingxin, 2010. "Food as the basis for development and security: A strategy for Yemen," IFPRI discussion papers 1036, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    3. Gerson Javier Pérez Valbuena, 2013. "Barranquilla: avances recientes en sus indicadores socioeconómicos, y logros en la accesibilidad geográfica a la red pública hospitalaria," Documentos de trabajo sobre Economía Regional y Urbana 185, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    4. Patricia Blatnik & Štefan Bojnec, 2023. "Optimal Network of General Hospitals in Slovenia," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(5), pages 1-16, February.
    5. Gerson Javier Pérez V., 2013. "Accesibilidad geográfica y equidad en la prestación del servicio de salud: un estudio de caso para Barranquilla," Borradores de Economia 770, Banco de la Republica de Colombia.
    6. Gerson Javier Pérez V., 2013. "Accesibilidad geográfica y equidad en la prestación del servicio de salud: un estudio de caso para Barranquilla," Borradores de Economia 10853, Banco de la Republica.

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    Keywords

    spatial accessibility; health care; geographic information systems (GIS);
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior

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