Reply to So, now what?: Reflections on socioeconomic factors, testicular cancer, and health care accessibility

Cancer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 127 (8) ◽  
pp. 1347-1348
Author(s):  
Nathan Chertack ◽  
Fady Baky ◽  
Solomon Woldu ◽  
Aditya Bagrodia
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Testicular Cancer ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Health Care Accessibility

So, now what?: Reflections on socioeconomic factors, testicular cancer, and health care accessibility

Cancer ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 127 (8) ◽  
pp. 1345-1346
Author(s):  
Michael J. Rovito ◽  
Mike Craycraft ◽  
Walker Talton ◽  
Michael Maresca
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Testicular Cancer ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Health Care Accessibility

scholarly journals Using Prospective Methods to Identify Fieldwork Locations Favourable to Understanding Divergences in Health Care Accessibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 506
Author(s):  
Jan Ketil Rød ◽  
Arne H. Eide ◽  
Thomas Halvorsen ◽  
Alister Munthali
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Care Accessibility ◽  
Barriers To Health ◽  
Walking Time

Central to this article is the issue of choosing sites for where a fieldwork could provide a better understanding of divergences in health care accessibility. Access to health care is critical to good health, but inhabitants may experience barriers to health care limiting their ability to obtain the care they need. Most inhabitants of low-income countries need to walk long distances along meandering paths to get to health care services. Individuals in Malawi responded to a survey with a battery of questions on perceived difficulties in accessing health care services. Using both vertical and horizontal impedance, we modelled walking time between household locations for the individuals in our sample and the health care centres they were using. The digital elevation model and Tobler’s hiking function were used to represent vertical impedance, while OpenStreetMap integrated with land cover map were used to represent horizontal impedance. Combining measures of walking time and perceived accessibility in Malawi, we used spatial statistics and found spatial clusters with substantial discrepancies in health care accessibility, which represented fieldwork locations favourable for providing a better understanding of barriers to health access.

scholarly journals The Impact of Rural Health Care Accessibility on Cancer-Related Behaviors and Outcomes

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric J. Belasco ◽  
Gordon Gong ◽  
Barbara Pence ◽  
Ethan Wilkes
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Rural Health Care ◽  
Health Care Accessibility ◽  
The Impact

Taking the Bus: Incorporating Public Transport Timetable Data into Health Care Accessibility Modelling

10.1068/a4024 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 2510-2525 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Martin ◽  
Hannah Jordan ◽  
Paul Roderick
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Hospital Services ◽  
Time Analysis ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Health Care Accessibility ◽  
Geographical Access ◽  
The Social ◽  
Drive Time

This paper is concerned with geographical access to hospital services by public transport. By taking advantage of newly available public transport timetable data, a software tool is developed for the analysis of bus travel times under specified journey scenarios. The example of population access to Derriford Hospital in Devon, England, is used to illustrate the application of these methods, and the social and spatial pattern of accessibility by bus is explored. The analysis reveals substantial differences between access by public and private transport, and highlights the difficulty of combining conventional drive-time analysis with the discontinuous accessibility provided by public transport. There is a need for more attention to be paid to the incorporation of public transport in accessibility modelling.

Multiple-Influence Paradigms in Illness

1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (9) ◽  
pp. 531-537
Author(s):  
Robert A. Perkins ◽  
Jack B. Parker ◽  
Barry M. Daste
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Systematic Development ◽  
The Relationship

Social workers can contribute to a theory of disease and health care by a systematic development of the relationship between socioeconomic factors and morbidity

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