Accessibility of public services in the age of ageing and shrinking population: are regions following trends

Wiśniewski, Rafał; Stępniak, Marcin; Szejgiec-Kolenda, Barbara

doi:10.1080/04353684.2021.1903334

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“…The areas with the poorest spatial equity are distributed in the intermediate transition zone extending from the downtown area to the peripheral new groups. The findings are similar to what Rafal et al found in Poland [1]; their research has revealed the existence of inner peripheries on the borderlines between areas of influence of different regional centers: "Relatively low levels of accessibility can be partially explained by administrative factors (delimitation of 'catchment areas' for some types of services), as well as by the division of competences between various administrative units".…”

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“…Basic public services, including M&H care, public culture, education, etc., can effectively meet the various needs of people's lives and improve people's happiness. Previous studies have indicated that aging, residential segregation by class or due to spatial income inequality, and spatial population density may hinder equal and efficient access of residents to basic public services [1][2][3][4][5]. Spatial inequalities in public services that correlate with different social classes are found in many cities around the world [6,7].…”

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“…Cities around the world are committed to increasing the level of spatial equity of public services. Arguably, the main problem is not the lack of this service itself but the limited access to it [1]. Spatial inequality has been a hot subject in recent decades [12], as even Europe still has relevant problems [13].…”

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The Spatial Distribution and Optimization of Medical and Health Land from the Perspective of Public Service Equalization: A Case Study of Urumqi City

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From the two aspects of land quantity and spatial distribution, this article studies the existing problems and ideas for optimizing the supply of medical and health (M&H) land for municipal units to promote an equal supply of urban public services. Method: The existing problems were explored with the help of the kernel density, the spatial gravity model and the buffer zone analysis method, and the key optimization areas of M&H land under the trends of population flow were explored by constructing a suitability evaluation system for the natural, social and ecological elements. Results: The total amount of M&H land in the study area was lower than the standard. The characteristics of land supply that support hospitals and primary medical care are different, which makes it difficult for the population in different regions to obtain services from the two types of medical facilities. The supply of both types of land has room for improvement. Conclusion: The effect of public M&H supply is greatly affected by the factors of land supply, which directly causes the problem of uneven medical services in different regions. The land-use layout should be scientifically planned according to the characteristics of different regions.

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“…Originally a legal concept in EU law (Milstein, 2015), the term has gained importance in regional planning debates since the early 2010s. Recent contributions from the field of Regional Science have especially focused on the relevance of the accessibility of SGIs regarding urban and rural territorial cohesion (Malý, 2018;Gruber, Rauhut & Humer, 2019;Sá Marques et al, 2020;Wiśniewski, Stępniak & Szejgiec-Kolenda, 2021).…”

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Editorial: The geography and governance of infrastructure provision

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2021

Eur. XXI

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Infrastructure matters for regional development as well as for the individual wellbeing of people. This not only became painstakingly obvious since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. Thus, the phases of ‘lock-down’ during the pandemic became an eye opener for the condition of infrastructural fundaments of our cities and regions. Debates about systemic infrastructure for maintaining the functioning of our societies and economies – in scientific terms ‘Services of General Interest’ or the ‘Foundational Economy’ – received wide societal and political attention since the outbreak of the pandemic. Yet, already before the outbreak of this most severe global health crisis, discourses in applied social sciences have experienced an ‘infrastructural turn’, putting technical, social and green infrastructures into the centre of attention of social research, theory building and dissemination. This has led to different understandings of ‘infrastructure’ coexisting in academic and professional debates today. This introductory paper to the issue on ‘The Geography and Governance of Infrastructure Provision’ aims at giving an overview of current debates about infrastructure provision in Regional Science and Planning while introducing the six papers included in this theme issue of Europa XXI.

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“…Accurately assessing the service capacity of educational resources is a prerequisite for exploring educational inequality. Since Hansen proposed the concept of accessibility [9], scholars use various spatial and temporal methods to quantitatively analyze the differences in spatial accessibility of educational facilities [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

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Geospatial Analysis and Research on Social and Spatial Inequality of Compulsory Education: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China

Huang

2021

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Equal compulsory education is an important way to realize social and spatial equality, while the uneven allocation of educational resources in different regions and groups results in inequality of opportunity and solidification of social strata. Traditional research conducted on the basis of fixed search range ignores the special institutional background of Chinese school district system. In this paper, an improved Gaussian two-step floating catchment area model is developed taking into consideration the school district system, while the bivariate local spatial analysis method and geographically weighted regression model are employed to study the social and spatial differentiation of compulsory education accessibility and its capitalization effects in Hangzhou. Results show that (1) the improved Gaussian two-step floating catchment area model is more in line with the national condition of China’s “nearby schooling” policy; (2) the accessibility of compulsory schools in Hangzhou shows an obvious core-periphery typology, and the aggregation effect of primary school accessibility is more significant than that of secondary schools; (3) compared to groups with high socioeconomic status, vulnerable groups are highly disadvantaged in terms of access to educational services; (4) spatial heterogeneity exists in education capitalization, and the areas where education accessibility has the strongest impact on housing prices are in the central city with rich high-quality educational resources; (5) high-quality educational resources, high-priced communities, clusters of high socioeconomic status groups, and communities enjoying high-level education accessibility are highly consistent in all spaces, which is the spatial expression of educational inequality. The research on Hangzhou, a regional central city, provides a theoretical basis and technical support for the humanistic shift in the allocation of educational resources.

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Accessibility of public services in the age of ageing and shrinking population: are regions following trends

Cited by 12 publications

References 54 publications

The Spatial Distribution and Optimization of Medical and Health Land from the Perspective of Public Service Equalization: A Case Study of Urumqi City

The Spatial Distribution and Optimization of Medical and Health Land from the Perspective of Public Service Equalization: A Case Study of Urumqi City

Editorial: The geography and governance of infrastructure provision

Geospatial Analysis and Research on Social and Spatial Inequality of Compulsory Education: A Case Study of Hangzhou, China

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