Advancing equity of health service accessibility through spatial analysis: Applying the 3-step floating catchment area method for examining physiotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Miranda Buhler; Tayyab Shah; Meredith Perry; Marc Tennant; Estie Kruger; Stephan Milosavljevic

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Advancing equity of health service accessibility through spatial analysis: Applying the 3-step floating catchment area method for examining physiotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Advancing equity of health service accessibility through spatial analysis: Applying the 3-step floating catchment area method for examining physiotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand

Miranda Buhler, Tayyab Shah, Meredith Perry, Marc Tennant, Estie Kruger and Stephan Milosavljevic

International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) 2025, 13th (Christchurch, New Zealand, 26/08/2025–29/08/2025)

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15/09/2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17120186

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Geographic information systems

Health equity

Health services

Health services accessibility

Health workforce

Physiotherapy

This study demonstrates a novel application of the distance-based 3-step floating catchment area (3SFCA) method to examine the distribution of NZ physiotherapy workforce spatial accessibility at a high acuity level stratified by demographic indicators of health need (Māori or Pacific ethnicity, socioeconomic deprivation, rurality).

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Title: Advancing equity of health service accessibility through spatial analysis: Applying the 3-step floating catchment area method for examining physiotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand
Creators: Miranda Buhler
Tayyab Shah
Meredith Perry
Marc Tennant
Estie Kruger
Stephan Milosavljevic
Academic Unit: School of Physiotherapy; Va'a o Tautai - Centre for Pacific Health
Publisher: Zenodo
Date published ; e-published: 15/09/2025
Conference: International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience) 2025, 13th (Christchurch, New Zealand, 26/08/2025–29/08/2025)
Grant note: Division of Health Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Otago; Early- and Mid-Researcher Accelerator Grant, University of Otago
Copyright: Copyright © The Author(s) 2025. This work was first published on Zenodo. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided that the original work is properly attributed to the creator(s) and the source, a link to the Creative Commons license is provided, and any changes made are indicated.
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Advancing equity of health service accessibility through spatial analysis: Applying the 3-step floating catchment area method for examining physiotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand

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