Accessibility to health care facilities: a conceptual review and a measure with 2SFCA method for affiliated population from Mexico City
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https://doi.org/10.37230/CyTET.2025.226.14Keywords:
Accessibility-access, Health care facilities, 2SFCA method, Geographically Weighted Regression, GWR, Mexico CityAbstract
The objective of this paper is to review conceptually
and methodologically the binomial accessibilityaccess
to health services. Also, to calculate an
accessibility index to health centers for Mexico City
using the 2SFCA method; a Geographically Weighted
Regression model is also constructed to identify
the weight of some aspatial barriers that affect
accessibility. The results obtained reveal that, at the
city level, the population in the extreme north and the
urban periphery bordering the south and southeast
of Mexico City, although quantitatively they have the
greatest presence of first level health care centers,
have the lowest accessibility. On the other hand, the
population from core of city with a higher average
level of schooling and less urban marginalization
reports a higher level of accessibility.ution of road
space for bicycles in Colombian cities.
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