Potential access and revealed access to pain management medications

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 60; no. 8; pp. 1881 - 1891
• Main Authors: Lin, Swu-Jane, Crawford, Stephanie Y., Warren Salmon, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2005; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Access; Access to health care; Analgesics; Analgesics, Opioid - supply & distribution; Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use; Availability; Biological and medical sciences; Community pharmacy; Drug Prescriptions; Drugs; Geographic information system; Geographic Information Systems; Health care; Health care access; Health Care Services; Health services; Health Services Accessibility; Humans; Medical sciences; Medical treatment; Medicine; Miscellaneous; Needs Assessment; Neuropharmacology; Opiates; Opioids; Opioids Potential accessibility Revealed accessibility Geographic information system Community pharmacy USA; Pain; Pain - drug therapy; Pain management; Pharmacies; Pharmacology. Drug treatments; Potential accessibility; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Revealed accessibility; Rural Population; Rural-Urban differences; Treatment; U.S.A; United States of America; Urban Areas; Urban Population; USA; United States; North America; America; Potential accessibility; USA; Geographic information system; Revealed accessibility; Community pharmacy; Opioids; Human; Drug; Accessibility; Opiates; Care; Chemotherapy; Analgesic; Clinical management; Pain; Treatment; Drugstore; Social aspect; Public health

The area configuration of healthcare resources, such as the number of hospitals per hundred thousand population, has often been used in healthcare planning and policy making to estimate the global access (potential access) of health services to a local population. However, the actual utilization of...