Assessing spatial inequality in cancer service access in regional areas
| Autor: | Ka C. Chan, R. F. G. Williams, Christopher T. Lenard |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Cogent Public Health, Vol 9, Iss 1 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 27707571 2770-7571 84237430 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/27707571.2022.2127188 |
| Popis: | This paper applies economic concepts from measuring income inequality to an exercise in assessing spatial inequality in cancer service access in regional areas. We propose a mathematical model for accessing chemotherapy among local government areas (LGAs). Our model incorporates a distance factor. With a simulation we report results for a single inequality measure: the Lorenz curve is depicted for our illustrative data. We develop this approach in order to move incrementally towards its application to actual data and real-world health service regions. We seek to develop the exercises that can lead policy makers to relevant policy information on the most useful data collections to be collected and modeling for cancer service access in regional areas. Inequality |
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