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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-4-W2-91-2017</article-id>
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<article-title>SPATIAL INEQUALITY IN THE ACCESSIBILITY TO HOSPITALS IN GREECE</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kalogirou</surname>
<given-names>S.</given-names>
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<addr-line>Dept. of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, El. Venizelou 70, Kallithea 17671, Athens, Greece</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>05</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2017</year>
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<volume>XLII-4/W2</volume>
<fpage>91</fpage>
<lpage>94</lpage>
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<p>The aim of this paper is to measure the spatial accessibility to public health care facilities in Greece. We look at population groups
disaggregated by age and socioeconomic characteristics. The purpose of the analysis is to identify potential spatial inequalities in the
accessibility to public hospitals among population groups or service areas. The data refer to the accessibility of all residents to public
hospitals in Greece. The spatial datasets include the location of settlements (communities), the administrative boundaries of
municipalities and the location of public hospitals. The methodology stems from spatial analysis theory (gravity models), economics
theory (inequalities) and geocomputation practice (GIS and programming). Several accessibility measures have been calculated using
the newly developed R package &lt;i&gt;SpatialAcc&lt;/i&gt;, which is available in CRAN. The results are interesting and tend to show an urban-rural
and social class divide: younger, working age population as well as people with the highest educational attainment have better
accessibility to public hospitals compared to older or low educated residents. This finding has serious policy making implications
and should be taken into account in the future spatial (re)organisation of hospitals in Greece.</p>
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