Impact of traffic variability on geographic accessibility to 24/7 emergency healthcare for the urban poor: A GIS study in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shakil Ahmed; Alayne M. Adams; Rubana Islam; Shaikh Mehdi Hasan; Rocco Panciera

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222488

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Impact of traffic variability on geographic accessibility to 24/7 emergency healthcare for the urban poor: A GIS study in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shakil Ahmed ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: shakil.du05@gmail.com

Current address: Centre of Excellence for Urban Equity and Health, BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3862-2732

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Alayne M. Adams,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rubana Islam,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW, Australia

Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Shaikh Mehdi Hasan,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rocco Panciera

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Health Section, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation Health Systems and Population Studies Division, icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Impact of traffic variability on geographic accessibility to 24/7 emergency healthcare for the urban poor: A GIS study in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shakil Ahmed,
Alayne M. Adams,
Rubana Islam,
Shaikh Mehdi Hasan,
Rocco Panciera

Published: September 16, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222488

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