Parameters including distance of blood donors from blood facilities, experience factor of donors in blood facilities and advertising budget in blood facilities are considered social aspects and applied to form utility function used in this paper.
During a self-administered survey of physician referral practices for hereditary breast cancer, conducted by Koil et al., rural-practice physicians reported several barriers including "distance of services," "lack of awareness of services," "lack of effective risk reduction or clinical management," and "patients not interested" (P < 0.05) [ 24].
Other reasons include distance of the public sector facility, long waiting time, and inconvenient hours of operation.
Additional file 12 shows the effect of including distance to TSS for six representative genomic annotations for the significantly trait-associated SNPs.
Nearly one-fourth of patients did acknowledge specific challenges, including distance, frequency of visits required, and expenses incurred.
Although selection criteria for community study sites included diversity of geographic circumstances, including distance and conditions of access to the nearest referral centre, the geographic diversity of rural communities cannot be represented by three study sites.
Many survivors of gender based violence (GBV) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) report barriers to access health services including, distance, cost, lack of trained providers and fear of stigma.
We relied on several self-reported measures, including distance from site of care and history of TB treatment.
In the analyses on DCA, we performed additional adjustments for demographic characteristics including distance from place of residence to the nearest hospital with cardiac catheterisation facilities, income, level of education and cohabitation status.
Measures tested included: distance to nearest POS, size of nearest POS, total number of POS, and area of POS at scales of 400, 800, 1000, and 1600 m.
This chapter discusses the fundamentals of various types of sensors including distance, movement, and proximity.
