Quantifying spatial accessibility in public health practice and research: an application to on-premise alcohol outlets, United States, 2013

Quantifying spatial accessibility in public health practice and research: an application to on-premise alcohol outlets, United States, 2013

Abstract Objective To assess spatial accessibility measures to on-premise alcohol outlets at census block, census tract, county, and state levels for the United States. Methods Using network analysis in a geographic information system, we computed distance-based measures (Euclidean distance, driving...

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Main Authors: Hua Lu, Xingyou Zhang, James B. Holt, Dafna Kanny, Janet B. Croft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-06-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Subjects:
Network analysis
Spatial accessibility
Alcohol outlet
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12942-018-0143-y

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