Abstract

Advancing the frontiers of geographic accessibility to healthcare services

Macharia, P. M. Banke-Thomas, A. Benova, L.
Commun Med (Lond). 2023; 3158

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00391-w

Assessing geographic accessibility to healthcare is essential to identify communities that have been left behind. Smartphone mobility data now enables the study of healthcare accessibility over a global scale, providing estimates of actual travel times to access care. Macharia et al. discuss a Communications Medicine article on global healthcare accessibility and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. They outline strengths in the comprehensive approach taken to studying revealed versus potential spatial accessibility, plus some limitations and wider context with which the results can be interpreted. eng