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Current realities versus theoretical optima: quantifying efficiency and sociospatial equity of travel time to hospitals in low-income and middle-income countries

BACKGROUND: Having hospitals located in urban areas where people, resources and wealth concentrate is efficient, but leaves long travel times for the rural and often poorer population and goes against the equity objective. We aimed to assess the current efficiency (mean travel time in the whole popu...

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Autores principales: Wong, Kerry LM, Brady, Oliver J, Campbell, Oona Maeve Renee, Jarvis, Christopher I, Pembe, Andrea, Gomez, Gabriela B, Benova, Lenka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6730570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31543989
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001552