We measure one aspect of how access to emergency care through ambulance services changes for patients when a hospital … period immediately after the hospital closes. We find urban patients in zip codes where a hospital closes have a small change … to transport a patient from the location of the incident to the hospital. The impact on rural Medicare-eligible patients …

The article analyzes to which extent residential proximity from an emergency hospital affects the probability of … endogenous health-based spatial sorting of involved agents and data limitations on out-of-hospital mortality. Using policy …-induced variation in hospital distance, arising from plausibly exogenous emergency hospital closures in the highly regulated Swedish …

's Democratic Republic (n = 12), Liberia (n = 12) and Rwanda (n = 25). Hospital sites were selected by pragmatic sampling. Data were … geocoded and then analysed using an online data visualization platform. Each hospital's catchment population was defined as the … people who could reach the hospital via a vehicle trip of no more than two hours. A hospital was only considered to show …

Emergency Department of a hospital (ED). This choice is made by a patient who is generally not herself a trained medical …

urban-rural gap in public infrastructure. Leftwing governments relocate hospital beds from rural regions. We propose that … leftwing governments do so to gratify their more urban constituencies. In turn, spatial inequalities in hospital infrastructure …