A clinical peripherality index, based on these variables, was derived using factor analysis.
In this exploratory study, we have formulated a "clinical peripherality" indicator that takes account of the spatial accessibility factors and applied it to our general practice communities.
This exploratory study describes the development of a "clinical peripherality" indicator that has potential application to remote and rural general practice communities for planning and research purposes.
We wished to examine if a clinical peripherality indicator could be developed that would relate to the pattern of services provided and therefore the training requirements for practitioners in rural and remote practices.
Expanding their analysis to include human orthologs of mouse genes involved in pre- or post-natal lethality, Goh K. I. et al. [32], however, observed an "unexpected peripherality" of the disease causing genes in the sense that essential genes were found to be clustered into "hubs" and were not involved in diseases.
The measure of peripherality we have chosen has some features of a gravity model, in which the economic influence of a centre on a peripheral location is proportional to the volume of activity at the centre (i.e. its "size") and inversely proportional to its distance from the peripheral location, hence the analogy with gravity.
"Such grotesque underfunding in Cornwall only reproduces a cycle of peripherality".
Richard Howitt, Labour MEP for the area, explained the difficulties he's faced while campaigning for Remain: "There is a problem with peripherality in the area," he said.
Peripherality, an approximation of full participation, gives exposure to actual practice.
In contrast, in travel time/cost models, the peripherality of a location is defined by a function of the costs of reaching other major centres, the number of people that can be accessed at any chosen time from the location or the costs associated with reaching a chosen number of people from that location.
