Healthcare services for people with acquired disability in South-East Queensland, Australia: Assessing potential proximity and its association with service obstacles.

ABSTRACT: This study described access potential in South-East Queensland, to healthcare services commonly used by people with acquired disability; and investigated the association between service proximity and perceived service obstacles. First, we described accessibility by conducting a spatial analysis to create maps of potential accessibility to health services in South-East Queensland. Queensland statistical area level 2 (SA2) locations were combined with the residential locations of participants from a longitudinal cohort study involving people with ABI and SCI. The locations of selected health services of interest were identified from Health Direct's National Health Service Directory. Travel times via motor vehicle were modelled with Robust Gaussian Stochastic Process, to smoothly interpolate

SUBMITTER: Borg DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9424535 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature