Spatial Accessibility for Public Health

Measuring spatial accessibility to healthcare resources

Spatial Accessibility helps to quantify the disparities in access to critical goods and services across space. In the context of healthcare, those inequities have real-word consequences for the health and lives of people.

A screenshot of the WhereCOVID-19 Dashboard's Accessibility Explorer

Associated Publications

Journal Articles

2023

  1. Daily Changes in Spatial Accessibility to ICU Beds and Their Relationship with the Case-Fatality Ratio of COVID-19 in the State of Texas, USA
    Applied Geography, 2023

2022

  1. Spatial Accessibility to HIV Testing, Treatment, and Prevention Services in Illinois and Chicago, USA
    PLOS ONE, 2022

2020

  1. Rapidly Measuring Spatial Accessibility of COVID-19 Healthcare Resources: A Case Study of Illinois, USA
    Kang, Jeon-Young, Michels, Alexander C, Lyu, Fangzheng, Wang, Shaohua, Agbodo, Nelson, Freeman, Vincent L, and Wang, Shaowen
    International Journal of Health Geographics, 2020