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Healthcare Accessibility and Socio-economic Deprivation: A Case Study in Quito, Ecuador

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Pablo Francisco Cabrera Barona y Thomas Blaschke (published in 2023-01-17 by sandra rochina )
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Cabrera Barona, Pablo Francisco y Thomas Blaschke. 2015. Healthcare Accessibility and Socio-economic Deprivation: A Case Study in Quito, Ecuador. GI_Forum, 1. 484-492. https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2015s484.
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Summary:
Comparing different healthcare accessibility measures and relating them to socio-economic information is a useful means for identifying health inequalities. In this study, a socioeconomic deprivation index is initially calculated. Then, three measures of health services accessibility are calculated: distance to the nearest health center, a two-step floating catchment area measure, and a modified gravity-based accessibility measure. Finally, the three accessibility measures are compared to the socio-economic deprivation index. The study is applied in a study case in Quito, Ecuador. Results show differences between the different healthcare accessibility measures, and that areas with more socio-economic deprivation can be considered as areas that have limited access to health services.