Assessing spatial accessibility to maternity units in Shenzhen, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the rapid development of urbanization, pregnant population is growing rapidly in Shenzhen, and it has been a difficulty to serve more and more pregnant women and reduce spatial access disparities to maternity units (MUs). Understanding of the current status of accessibility to MUs is valuable for supporting the rational allocation of MUs in the future.

Methods

Based on pregnant population data and MUs data, this study uses a two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method based on Geographic Information System (GIS) to analyze the current spatial accessibility to MUs, and then make a comparison between that to public MUs and private MUs.

Results

Our analysis of the accessibility to all MUs within a distance of 20 km shows that the accessibilities of th

SUBMITTER: Song P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3716609 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature