Assessing equity of the spatial distribution of primary health care facilities in Fuzhou City, China: A comprehensive method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is well known that equity assessment of the spatial distribution of primary health care facilities (PHCFs) is significant to optimize the allocation of health care resources and enhance the ability to react to public health emergencies, yet there is much discussion about the poor effectiveness of assessment for many cities due to the limitations of the insufficient ability of traditional data to reflect residents' demands, etc. In many cities where PHCFs are inequity distributed, this is urgently needed for the government.

Methods

Using Fuzhou City, China as a case study, we propose a comprehensive method for assessing the equity that consisting of two frameworks based on the Geographic Information System. The first framework is assessing resident demand based

SUBMITTER: You N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8714018 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature