Modeling population access to New Zealand public hospitals

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 census enumeration district centroids in N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brabyn, Lars, Skelly, Chris
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2002
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC149398/