Urban form and equity: access to public health care equipment in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Tiago
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Maraschin, Clarice
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.47235/rmu.v8i2.160
• topic: modelos configuracionais; equidade; oportunidade espacial; equipamentos de saúde; configurational models; equity; spatial opportunity; health equipment

This article focuses on the influence of the urban form on the population's access to equipment and its objective is to systematize a methodology for assessing equity in access to public health equipment, based on configurational models. The study analyzes how the population of Porto Alegre is located in relation to accessing primary health care units (US). The empirical data comes from the municipal database GEOSAÚDE (2010) and IBGE (Census 2010). The methodology involves calculating the targeted accessibility of demands (residents) to offers (US), based on the Spatial Opportunity model. The modeling outcomes allowed identifying the spatial opportunity of the population and, in a second moment, to discuss the equity of access of the priority population profile. The equity analysis was carried out in a comparative way (general average for the city and some selected neighborhoods). The methodology showed its potential to analyze and discuss the complexity of the population's access patterns to health services and can also contribute to test alternative scenarios, supporting decision making.