Urban Hospital Location

In: Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning Ser v.16

Abstract

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Contents -- List of tables -- Dedication -- 1 Exploring the problem and establishing a framework -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The urban dimension -- 1.3 Scope and objective of the study -- 1.4 Locational background to hospital provision -- 1.5 Central place theory -- 1.6 Some particular deficiencies in the theory -- 1.7 Changing objectives and relaxing assumptions -- 1.8 Hospitals and the problem of scale economies -- 1.9 A simple geographical typology of cities -- 1.10 A classification of hospitals -- 1.11 Hospital finance and administration: public or private -- 1.12 Conclusions -- 2 The geographical organisation of hospitals in cities -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Districting under even and uneven densities -- 2.3 One-dimensional urban regions -- 2.4 Resource allocation under different districting criteria -- 2.5 Allocation mechanisms in central place health systems -- 2.6 A spatial hierarchy of urban hospitals -- 2.7 Geographical properties of a simple hierarchical system -- 2.8 Some simple transformation techniques for obtaining P-districted hospital facilities -- 2.9 Examples of transformations -- 2.10 Scale economies, hospital size and districting -- 2.11 Hospital sizes in different levels of the hierarchy -- 3 The impact of travel time on the accessibility of hospitals in cities -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The geometry of movement in cities -- 3.3 Time surfaces -- 3.4 The perception of distance -- 3.5 Districting cities with variable accessibility -- 3.6 Tessellating the cylinder, cone and sphere -- 3.7 Barriers to travel -- 3.8 Emergency medical services: a practical illustration -- 3.9 Conclusions -- 4 The demand for health services in cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Factors influencing the demand for health care