Ciudad y Covid-19

Accesibilidad de población adulta mayor a unidades médicas. Chimalhuacán, Estado de México

Bibliographic Data

ID21474553
AuthorsKarla Teresa Rojas Moreno (0000-0002-0916-4429), Karla Teresa Rojas (El Colegio Mexiquense), Tania Chávez Soto (0000-0002-6884-0415, El Colegio Mexiquense), Carlos Garrocho Rangel (0000-0001-9181-3151, El Colegio Mexiquense)
Year2022
Volume34
Publication date2022-11-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontera Norte (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0187-7372 • E-ISSN: 2594-0260
PublisherEl Colegio de la Frontera Norte A.C. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.33679/rfn.v1i1.2300
OpenAlexW4315564862
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

COVID-19 is confronting health systems with an enormous demand for services. A large part is the vulnerable urban population due to age, comorbidities, and socioeconomic status. We linked two methods focused on achieving a more accessible, efficient, and equitable socio-spatial distribution of the health system for older adults, in an urban and dense municipality of Mexico, with general conditions of poverty. The first method measures the levels of accessibility of the elderly population to health units, with walking transfers (called the Two-step floating catchment area); the second assesses the most convenient locations for new units, combining criteria of efficiency and equity (the p-Median model with distance restrictions). We revealed inequalities of accessibility of older adults to health units and the most satisfactory locational solution, assuming an increase of six new health units. It is proposed to streamline the used methods with Cellular Automata

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Family medicine · Geography · Health care · Inequality · Population · Primary care · Primary health care · Socioeconomic status · Aging, Health, and Disability · Engineering · Mathematics · Medicine · Gerontology · Marketing

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