Car travel time and accessibility by bus to general practitioner services: a study using patient registers and GIS

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 97 - 111
• Main Authors: Lovett, Andrew, Haynes, Robin, Sünnenberg, Gisela, Gale, Susan
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2002; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Access; Accessibility; Accessibility Bus services GIS GP services Patient registers Rural deprivation UK; Analysis. Health state; Automobiles; Biological and medical sciences; Bus services; Buses; Catchment Area (Health); East Anglia; England; Epidemiology; Family Practice; General aspects; General practice; Geographic information systems; Geography; GIS; GP services; Health care access; Health Services Accessibility - classification; Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Information Systems; Location; Medical sciences; Motor cars; Needs Assessment; Patient registers; Patients; Primary Health Care; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Public Transportation; Registries; Rural deprivation; Rural health care; Rural Population; Small-Area Analysis; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Analysis; Surgery; Time; Transport; Transportation; United Kingdom; Europe; England; United Kingdom > UK; GIS; Accessibility; Rural deprivation; GP services; UK; Patient registers; Bus services; Human; Rural environment; Geographic distribution; Register; Health; Primary health care; Transport; Epidemiology; Public health; Inequality

Accessibility to general practitioner (GP) surgeries was investigated in a population study of East Anglia (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk) in the United Kingdom. Information from patient registers was combined with details of general practitioner surgery locations, road network characteristics...