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Measurement of Spatial Accessibility and Disparities to Pharmacies in Lucas County and Multnomah County

Oladimeji, Abolade Issa, Oladimeji
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1532984594967435

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2018, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Geography.
Research has shown that neighborhood has significant effects on health outcomes; this emphasizes the importance place plays in health care planning and urban health geography. As much as a place or a spatial location is essential, the people who live in such neighborhoods or area are also important. Pharmacies everywhere in the world play a significant role in the overall wellbeing and welfare of people. It is vital that while business owners and professionally trained pharmacists seek to locate their stores in locations where they would make the maximum profits; it is also essential to ensure that everyone regardless of demographic status has equal access to it. Accessibility could be defined in many terms, but this study focuses more on spatial accessibility on how people living in different geographic locations( demand locations) enjoy relative ease to a place of service(supply location). To measure this relative easiness, this study uses two geographic information system based technique; the proximity analysis and the two-step floating catchment area method to analyze how all the population in Lucas County access their pharmacies. The study uses the census block group data as a unit of analysis, and the results were compared to the outcomes of Multnomah County. The reason for this comparison is to observe if the expected variations in accessibility in Toledo would be the same for Portland that is adjudged as a model of 21st-century urban planning in the country. The final results from the two methods show that African Americans enjoy better accessibility than white, and people living below the poverty line also enjoy better accessibility. A simple OLS regression was used to analyze the relationship between accessibility scores and socioeconomic and demographic status. The results show that in Toledo, Blacks, Whites, Bachelor's degree, Poverty have a significant relationship with accessibility. However, in Portland, housing units stocks, whites, people with a bachelor's degree have a substantial relationship with accessibility.
Sujata Shetty (Advisor)
62 p.
Geographic Information Science; Geography; Urban Planning
Health disparity, Pharmacy accessibility, Healthcare accessibility, Geographic and Racial disparity, Residential segregation

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  • Oladimeji, Oladimeji, A. I. (2018). Measurement of Spatial Accessibility and Disparities to Pharmacies in Lucas County and Multnomah County [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1532984594967435

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Oladimeji, Oladimeji, Abolade. Measurement of Spatial Accessibility and Disparities to Pharmacies in Lucas County and Multnomah County. 2018. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1532984594967435.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Oladimeji, Oladimeji, Abolade. "Measurement of Spatial Accessibility and Disparities to Pharmacies in Lucas County and Multnomah County." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1532984594967435

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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