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Table 2 Distances calculated between health services and spatial units

From: Comparing alternative approaches to measuring the geographical accessibility of urban health services: Distance types and aggregation-error issues

Spatial units (origins)

Health services (destinations)

Types of distance*

Distances calculated

Type

N

   

Census tracts

852

642

4

2,187,936

Dissemination areas

5,829

642

4

14,968,872

Blocks

25,767

642

4

66,169,656

Total

32,448

642

4

83,326,464

  1. * Euclidean, Manhattan, shortest network distance, shortest network time.
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International Journal of Health Geographics

ISSN: 1476-072X