Dear colleagues,
We would like to bring your attention to the special session we organize on "Changes in health care provision, spatial mobility and access to care" at the 59th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (27-30 August 2019, Lyon, France).
The deadline for submission of abstracts is Thursday 28th February 2019
Submission portal:
https://ersa.eventsair.com/PresentationPortal/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FPresentationPortal%2F59th-ersa-congress-lyon-27-30-august-2019%2Fsa
S06. Changes in health care provision, spatial mobility and access to care
Public health policies, in their objective to better meet the needs of the population (Illich, 1975; McKeown, 1979), face multiple challenges related to, among other things, population ageing, increasing rates of chronic diseases, the demographics of health professionals and high economic, social, and geographic inequalities in health (Haschar-Noé and Lang, 2018). Spatial reconfigurations of health services, generally under severe budgetary constraints, contribute to change the conditions of access to health care. In addition, the digitalisation of health care has led to the emergence of new forms of cooperation between health professionals and with the patients (Freeman, 2002; Normand 2017) that are changing the geographical coverage of health practitioners and services.
This special session proposes to focus on access to care (considered as "the fit between the patient and the health care system", Penchansky and Thomas, 1981:127), physical accessibility (time or distance between the locations of the service and of the patient, Guagliardo, 2004) and spatial mobility. They can be considered in their multiple dimensions: economic, social, geographical and technological, at different scales (local, regional or national) and in different contexts, in countries of the North and the South.
Communications may focus on (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- reconfigurations of health care provision, geographical accessibility to facilities and access;
- spatial mobility (travel behaviour, mobility resources, modes of transport used) related to care (patients, but also heath care professionals and family, friends or volunteer carers);
- development of e-health, telemedicine (care networks, connected objects, remote care...), mobile/itinerant care (mobile medical unit / home care) and their effects on care practices;
- continuity of care, relations between caregivers and patients.
See more details on congress themes here:
https://ersa.eventsair.com/59th-ersa-congress-lyon-27-30-august-2019/congress-themes
You are welcome to contact the organisers for any related enquiries:
Delphine Burguet ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Pascal Pochet ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>), Jean-Baptiste Fassier ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Louafi Bouzouina ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Feel free to circulate this information.
Best regards,
Pascal Pochet
Research fellow
LAET ENTPE
Rue Maurice Audin, 69518 Vaulx-en-Velin cedex, France
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