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3399. Assess the Equity Impacts of different Transportation Modes using Access to Health Facilities for Asthma Patients an Indicator

Invited abstract in session MC-10: Mobility and transportation in healthcare, stream OR in Health Services (ORAHS).

Monday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 11 (building: 116)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Mahnoush Minuyee
University of Calgary
2. Merkebe Getachew Demissie
University of Calgary
3. Anne Hicks
university of Alberta
4. Laleh Behjat
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary
5. Barry O'Sullivan
School of Computer Science & IT, University College Cork

Abstract

Asthma exacerbations can occur due to various factors, including exposure to air pollutants generated by economic sectors, like the transportation sector. Here, we investigate the equity performance of different transportation modes using access to health facilities as key equity outcome. Patients with asthma must get to hospitals soon. Asthma, which affected 10% of the Canada's population in 2021, is one of the most prevalent chronic respiratory diseases affecting children in Calgary in Canada.
To achieve transportation fairness, our study focuses on the critical component of spatial accessibility to medical facilities for the medical care of pediatric asthma. We intend to shed light on how accessible it is for patients with asthma to get to the closest medical facilities using different transportation modes. We have developed a comprehensive equity analysis framework to measure access to health facilities. It combines coverage and reachability-based methods and utilizes both vertical and horizontal equity techniques. We calculated accessibility metrics at different geographical levels to highlight how various transportation modes impact access to health facilities, such as at the community district or city sector level. Our findings demonstrate that transportation planners can leverage insights generated from both vertical and horizontal equity analyses to enhance transportation services in underserved communities, thereby improving access to various health facilities.

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Status: accepted

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