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Título : | Rural-Urban Disparities in Realized Spatial Access to General Practitioners, Orthopedic Surgeons, and Physiotherapists among People with Osteoarthritis in Alberta, Canada | Autor : | Liu, Xiaoxiao Seidel, Judy E McDonald, Terrence Patel, Alka B Waters, Nigel Bertazzon, Stefania Shahid, Rizwan Marshall, Deborah A |
Palabras clave : | Consulta Remota;Médicos Generales;Cirujanos Ortopédicos;Osteoartritis;Fisioterapeutas;Accesibilidad a los Servicios de Salud;Dinámica Poblacional;Análisis Espacio-Temporal | Fecha de publicación : | 23-jun-2022 | Journal: | International journal of environmental research and public health | Citación : | Int J Environ Res Public Health;19(13)2022:1-20 | Resumen : | Rural Canadians have high health care needs due to high prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) but lack access to care. Examining realized access to three types of providers (general practitioners (GPs), orthopedic surgeons (Ortho), and physiotherapists (PTs)) simultaneously helps identify gaps in access to needed OA care, inform accessibility assessment, and support health care resource allocation. Travel time from a patient's postal code to the physician's postal code was calculated using origin-destination network analysis. We applied descriptive statistics to summarize differences in travel time, hotspot analysis to explore geospatial patterns, and distance decay function to examine the travel pattern of health care utilization by urbanicity. The median travel time in Alberta was 11.6 min (IQR = 4.3-25.7) to GPs, 28.9 (IQR = 14.8-65.0) to Ortho, and 33.7 (IQR = 23.1-47.3) to PTs. We observed significant rural-urban disparities in realized access to GPs (2.9 and IQR = 0.0-92.1 in rural remote areas vs. 12.6 and IQR = 6.4-21.0 in metropolitan areas), Ortho (233.3 and IQR = 171.3-363.7 in rural remote areas vs. 21.3 and IQR = 14.0-29.3 in metropolitan areas), and PTs (62.4 and IQR = 0.0-232.1 in rural remote areas vs. 32.1 and IQR = 25.2-39.9 in metropolitan areas). We identified hotspots of realized access to all three types of providers in rural remote areas, where patients with OA tend to travel longer for health care. This study may provide insight on the choice of catchment size and the distance decay pattern of health care utilization for further studies on spatial accessibility. |
Descripción : | Fil: Liu, Xiaoxiao. Department of Community Health Science, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: Seidel, Judy E. Department of Community Health Science, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: McDonald, Terrence. Department of Community Health Science, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: Patel, Alka B. Department of Community Health Science, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: Waters, Nigel. Department of Geography, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: Bertazzon, Stefania. Department of Geography, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: Shahid, Rizwan. Department of Geography, University of Calgary; Canadá Fil: Marshall, Deborah A. Department of Community Health Science, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Canadá |
URI : | http://sgc.anlis.gob.ar/handle/123456789/2560 | DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19137706 |
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