Beyond distance: integrating economic burden into large-scale primary healthcare accessibility analysis
Our methodology supports future large-scale, high-resolution accessibility analyses that can guide interventions aimed at addressing healthcare disparities and improving equity. The empirical application of this methodology in Chinese mainland revealed significant disparities in PHC access across the country and quantified the substantial economic costs associated with these disparities.
Authors
- Hao Xue (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9683-5541)
- Ning Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5841-4933)
- Liutong Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6629-1398)
- Bin Zhu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0091-6356)
- Ying Mao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-2524)
- Samir Bhatt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0891-4611)
- Minghui Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2475-4010)
- Yifei He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9046-6861)
Institutions
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Hoover Institution (US)
- Beijing Normal University (CN)
- Southern University of Science and Technology (CN)
- Vanke (China) (CN)
- Department of Health (ZA)
- George Institute for Global Health (CN)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
- Tsinghua University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Global Health Research and Policy
- Published
- 2025-10-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s41256-025-00451-9
- Primary Topic
- Global Health Care Issues
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province