Measuring Spatial Accessibility of Urban Medical Facilities: A Case Study in Changning District of Shanghai in China

Min Cheng, Li Tao, Yuejiao Lian and Weiwei Huang
Additional contact information
Min Cheng: School of Management, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai 200444, China
Li Tao: School of Management, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai 200444, China
Yuejiao Lian: School of Management, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai 200444, China
Weiwei Huang: School of Management, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Baoshan District, Shanghai 200444, China

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: Medical facilities help to ensure a higher quality of life and improve social welfare. The spatial accessibility determines the allocation fairness and efficiency of medical facilities. It also provides information about medical services that residents can share. Although critical, scholars often overlooked the level of medical facilities, the composition of integrated transportation networks, and the size of service catchment in the literature on accessibility. This study aims to fill this research gap by considering the integrated transportation network, population scale, travel impedance between medical facilities and residential areas, and the impact of medical facilities’ levels on residents’ medical choices. An improved potential model was constructed to analyze the spatial accessibility of medical facilities in Changning District of Shanghai, China. Interpolation analysis was conducted to reveal the spatial accessibility pattern. Cluster and outlier analysis and Getis-Ord G i * analysis were applied for the cluster analysis. Results show that the spatial accessibility of medical facilities is quite different in different residential areas of Changning District, Shanghai. Among them, the spatial accessibility of medical facilities is relatively high in Hongqiao subdistrict, Xinjing Town, and part of Xinhua Road subdistrict. In addition, residents have overall better access to secondary hospitals than to primary and tertiary hospitals in the study area. This study provides a spatial decision support system for urban planners and policymakers regarding improving the accessibility of healthcare facilities. It extends the literature on spatial planning of public facilities and could facilitate scientific decision making.

Keywords: medical facilities; spatial accessibility; improved potential model (IPM); geographic information systems (GIS); shanghai (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/18/9598/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/18/9598/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:18:p:9598-:d:633892

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().