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Christian Simoneau
Department of Societies, Territories and Development, University of Quebec at Rimouski, Quebec, CanadaPublications
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Research Article
Improving the Evaluation of Primary Care Physician Accessibility in Eastern Quebec: Incorporating the Pampalon Deprivation Index into the Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Methodology
Author(s): Christian Simoneau*
Objective: To improve the Enhanced Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (E2SFCA) method by incorporating the Pampalon Deprivation Index (PDI). This integration will enable the characterization of the local environment and the identification of primary care accessibility patterns in Eastern Quebec that may not be detected by traditional physician access measures. Methods: We used the Pampalon Deprivation Index (PDI) to adjust the access ratio of Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) calculated by the enhanced two-step floating catchment area method. This approach considers the supply of PCPs at the dissemination area level, travel time between PCPs and dissemination areas and a linear distance decay function (β) in conjunction with the PDI for each dissemination area. The PDI is a composite measure of material and social deprivation, which can help.. Read More»