Seasonal variation in geographical access to maternal health services in regions of southern Mozambique
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- 作者：Prestige Tatenda Makanga ; Nadine Schuurman…
- 关键词：Maternal health services ; Geographical access to care ; Global health ; Health geography ; Geographical information systems
- 刊名：International Journal of Health Geographics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：16
- 期：1
- 全文大小：9490KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Human Geography; Epidemiology; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1476-072X
- 卷排序：16
文摘
BackgroundGeographic proximity to health facilities is a known determinant of access to maternal care. Methods of quantifying geographical access to care have largely ignored the impact of precipitation and flooding. Further, travel has largely been imagined as unimodal where one transport mode is used for entire journeys to seek care. This study proposes a new approach for modeling potential spatio-temporal access by evaluating the impact of precipitation and floods on access to maternal health services using multiple transport modes, in southern Mozambique.