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The "Safety Net" of Community Care: Leveraging GIS to Identify Geographic Access Barriers to Texas Family Planning Clinics for Homeless Women Veterans.
Article in AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- An Evidence Map of the Women Veterans' Health Literature, 2016 to 2023: A Systematic Review.JAMA network open · 2025Pooled it
- The application of GIS in homelessness research and service delivery: A qualitative systematic review.Health & place · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic review of access to healthcare and social services among US women Veterans experiencing homelessness.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
- Women veterans' experiences of veteran-specific support services: an international scoping review.BMC women's health · 2026Article
- Mapping the Location of Health Centers in Relation to "Maternity Care Deserts": Associations With Utilization of Women's Health Providers and Services.Medical care · 2021Article
- Dedicated homeless clinics reduce inappropriate emergency department utilization.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2020Article
- Distance Matters: Geographic barriers to long acting reversible and permanent contraception for homeless women Veterans.Journal of social distress and the homeless · 2019Article
- Impact of Deployment on Reproductive Health in U.S. Active-Duty Servicewomen and Veterans.Seminars in reproductive medicine · 2018Review
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Abstract
The Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) is developing a civilian referral system to address specialty access issues to VHA healthcare. Homeless women Veterans may not have the resources to navigate referral systems when travel to VHA Medical Centers (VAMCs) is limited, especially for family planning needs. Recent Texas legislation restricted funding to civilian, publically-funded family planning clinics, limiting comprehensive services. This study's goal was to assess geographic availability of VAMCs and family planning clinics for homeless Texan women Veterans. We identified 3,246 Texan women Veterans, age 18-44y with administrative homelessness evidence anytime between 2002-2015. Significant clusters of homeless women Veterans were near VHA facilities, yet mean travel distance was 24.1 miles (range 0-239) to nearest family planning clinic compared to 82.6 miles (range 0.8316.4) to nearest VAMC. Community clinics need ongoing civilian funding support if the VHA is to rely on their geographic availability as a safety net for vulnerable Veterans.
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