ABSTRACT
Health and medical geographers are not distinct in valuing access as a foundational component of a spatial system. Historically, notions on the accessibility of places have: underpinned classical forms of spatial arrangement, pattern, and hierarchy; highlighted social and environmental inequalities or injustices; and, helped shape the past, present, and future dynamics of location-based resources and services (Meade and Emch, 2010). However, the study of healthcare systems is a context in which consideration of access is ubiquitous, and has provided a great many developments in how access is conceptualized, qualified, quantified and modeled.
