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Travel Time to Health Facilities as a Marker of Geographical Accessibility Across Heterogeneous Land Coverage in Peru

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dc.contributor.author Carrasco Escobar, Gabriel
dc.contributor.author Manrique, E.
dc.contributor.author Tello-Lizarraga, K.
dc.contributor.author Miranda, J. Jaime
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-14T16:06:13Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-14T16:06:13Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8678
dc.description.abstract To better estimate the travel time to the most proximate health care facility (HCF) and determine differences across heterogeneous land coverage types, this study explored the use of a novel cloud-based geospatial modeling approach. Geospatial data of 145,134 cities and villages and 8,067 HCF were gathered with land coverage types, roads and river networks, and digital elevation data to produce high-resolution (30 m) estimates of travel time to HCFs across Peru. This study estimated important variations in travel time to HCFs between urban and rural settings and major land coverage types in Peru. The median travel time to primary, secondary, and tertiary HCFs was 1.9-, 2.3-, and 2.2-fold higher in rural than urban settings, respectively. This study provides a new methodology to estimate the travel time to HCFs as a tool to enhance the understanding and characterization of the profiles of accessibility to HCFs in low- and middle-income countries. © Copyright © 2020 Carrasco-Escobar, Manrique, Tello-Lizarraga and Miranda. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Frontiers Media
dc.relation.ispartofseries Frontiers in Public Health
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject travel time en_US
dc.subject geographic accessibility en_US
dc.subject health care accesibility en_US
dc.subject spatial analysis en_US
dc.subject inequality en_US
dc.subject healthcare delivery en_US
dc.title Travel Time to Health Facilities as a Marker of Geographical Accessibility Across Heterogeneous Land Coverage in Peru en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00498
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.055
dc.relation.issn 2296-2565


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