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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Measuring national accessibility to cardiac services using geographic information systems
Applied Geography, Volume 34, No. 1, Year 2012
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Description
The Cardiac Access-Remoteness Index of Australia (Cardiac ARIA) used geographic information systems (GIS) to model population level, road network accessibility to cardiac services before and after a cardiac event for all (20,387) population localities in Australia., The index ranged from 1A (access to all cardiac services within 1 h driving time) to 8E (limited or no access). The methodology derived an objective geographic measure of accessibility to required cardiac services across Australia. Approximately 71% of the 2006 Australian population had very good access to acute hospital services and services after hospital discharge. This GIS model could be applied to other regions or health conditions where spatially enabled data were available. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Coffee, Neil T.
Australia, Adelaide
University of South Australia
Wilkinson, David D.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Stewart, Simon D.
Australia, Melbourne
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute
Tonkin, Andrew Maxwell
Australia, Clayton
Monash University
Statistics
Citations: 33
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.01.007
ISSN:
01436228
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Noncommunicable Diseases
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study