Access to healthcare is a measure of human well-being that is constrained by numerous geographically-varying factors, the most immediate of which is the time it takes individuals to travel to a properly equipped and adequately staffed healthcare facility. Under the leadership of Dr Daniel Weiss and building on earlier research into travel time to cities, we have characterized travel time to healthcare facilities in unprecedented detail. We produce global travel time maps with and without access to motorized transport, thus characterizing travel time to healthcare for populations distributed across the wealth spectrum.
| Publications | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Global maps of travel time to healthcare facilities | Nature Medicine |
| 2018 | A global map of travel time to cities to assess inequalities in accessibility in 2015 | Nature |
| Data | Related Publication | Spatial Resolution | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walking-only travel time to healthcare | 2020 | 1 Km | Link to download |
| Motorized travel time to healthcare | 2020 | 1 Km | Link to download |
| Walking-only friction surface | 2020 | 1 Km | Link to download |
| Motorized friction surface | 2020 | 1 Km | Link to download |
| Travel time to cities | 2018 | 1 Km | Link to download |
| Friction surface | 2018 | 1 Km | Link to download |
| Generic accessibility mapping script (R) | Link to download |
Collaborators
This work was done in collaboration with:
- The Institute for Disease Modelling, Seattle, WA, USA.
- Section of Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Joint Research Centre of the European Union, and
- University of Twente, Netherlands.