Paper Info
Title
Evaluating spatial accessibility to healthcare services from the lens of emergency hospital visits based on floating car data
Abstract
Public medical facilities that are closely related to the health of residents have been recognised as one of the most crucial elements in sustainable urban planning. For the sake of social equality of medical services (especially for emergency medical conditions), the spatial distributions of medical resources need to be accurately measured and continuously optimized. This study presents an effective method to examine night emergency hospital visit and analyse its spatiotemporal characteristics using float car data (FCD). By extracting the hospital service areas, the two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) methodology was improved to calculate hospital accessibility. Then, the balance between hospital accessibility and population density was analysed. In addition, we investigated the relationship between individual hospital choice preferences and hospital level and analysed several factors that affect individual choices. These results help us understand the special requirements and need of emergency hospital travel in cities and identify areas where medical resources are scarce. They can be used as guidance for urban hospital planning and construction. And the approach of hospital access behaviour investigation and the improved 2SFCA method can also provide insights for other activity-based travel behaviour research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1080/17538947.2021.2014578
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Floating car data, hospital emergency travels, hospital service areas, hospital accessibility
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1753-8947
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Jiao101.01
Wei Huang2214.22
Hongchao Fan3177.44