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. 2023 Nov 3;3(1):158.
doi: 10.1038/s43856-023-00391-w.

Advancing the frontiers of geographic accessibility to healthcare services

Peter M Macharia  1   2 , Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas  3   4   5 , Lenka Beňová  6   3
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Advancing the frontiers of geographic accessibility to healthcare services

Peter M Macharia et al. Commun Med (Lond). .

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Abstract

Assessing geographic accessibility to healthcare is essential to identify communities that have been left behind. Smartphone mobility data now enables the study of healthcare accessibility over a global scale, providing estimates of actual travel times to access care.

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Conflict of interest statement

Peter Macharia is an Editorial Board Member for Communications Medicine, but was not involved in the editorial review of, nor the decision to publish this article. The authors declare no other competing interests.

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