小柯机器人

英国牛津大学P. W. Gething研究团队取得最新进展。他们绘制了前往医疗机构的全球时间地图。相关论文于2020年9月28日发表于《自然-医学》。

他们利用OpenStreetMap、Google Maps和学术研究人员正在进行主要数据收集工作，来汇编迄今为止最完整的设施位置信息库。利用他们设施数据集的地域变化优势，他们使用一种既定的方法来前所未有地详细描述前往医疗机构的时间。他们制作有无机动交通工具的时间地图，从而描述分布在整个财富范围内的人群到医疗保健机构的旅行时间。

他们发现，只有8.9％的全球人口（6.46亿人）假如使用机动运输工具，他们在一小时内无法到达医疗保健领域；而43.3％（31.6亿人口）的人无法在一小时内步行到达医疗机构。他们的地图突出显示了偏远地区的贫困人口面临的另一个脆弱性，可以帮助估计人们是否会在需要时寻求医疗保健，以及为有效地将有限的医疗保健和运输资源分配给现在和将来服务不足的人群提供依据。

研究人员表示获得医疗保健是人类福祉的要求，对于部分受到相对于地理上分散的人口的医疗保健资源分配限制。由于缺乏全面的医疗设施数据库，因此在全球范围内量化获得医疗服务的难度很大。

附：英文原文

Title: Global maps of travel time to healthcare facilities

Author: D. J. Weiss, A. Nelson, C. A. Vargas-Ruiz, K. Gligori, S. Bavadekar, E. Gabrilovich, A. Bertozzi-Villa, J. Rozier, H. S. Gibson, T. Shekel, C. Kamath, A. Lieber, K. Schulman, Y. Shao, V. Qarkaxhija, A. K. Nandi, S. H. Keddie, S. Rumisha, P. Amratia, R. Arambepola, E. G. Chestnutt, J. J. Millar, T. L. Symons, E. Cameron, K. E. Battle, S. Bhatt, P. W. Gething

Issue&Volume: 2020-09-28

Abstract: Access to healthcare is a requirement for human well-being that is constrained, in part, by the allocation of healthcare resources relative to the geographically dispersed human population1,2,3. Quantifying access to care globally is challenging due to the absence of a comprehensive database of healthcare facilities. We harness major data collection efforts underway by OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and academic researchers to compile the most complete collection of facility locations to date. Leveraging the geographically variable strengths of our facility datasets, we use an established methodology4 to characterize travel time to healthcare facilities in unprecedented detail. We produce maps of travel time with and without access to motorized transport, thus characterizing travel time to healthcare for populations distributed across the wealth spectrum. We find that just 8.9% of the global population (646 million people) cannot reach healthcare within one hour if they have access to motorized transport, and that 43.3% (3.16 billion people) cannot reach a healthcare facility by foot within one hour. Our maps highlight an additional vulnerability faced by poorer individuals in remote areas and can help to estimate whether individuals will seek healthcare when it is needed, as well as providing an evidence base for efficiently distributing limited healthcare and transportation resources to underserved populations both now and in the future.

DOI: 10.1038/s41591-020-1059-1

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1059-1

Nature Medicine：《自然—医学》，创刊于1995年。隶属于施普林格·自然出版集团，最新IF：87.241
官方网址：https://www.nature.com/nm/
投稿链接：https://mts-nmed.nature.com/cgi-bin/main.plex