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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Mapping Geographic Disparities in Healthcare Access Barriers Among Married Women in Pakistan: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey.

Asifa Kamal, Gulzar H Shah, Afrah Hafeez, Maryam Siddiqa, Charles Owens

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Asifa KamalDepartment of Statistics, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Gulzar H ShahJiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0954-3418
Afrah HafeezDepartment of Statistics, Lahore College for Women University, Lahore 54000, Pakistan.
Maryam SiddiqaDepartment of Mathematics & Statistics, International Islamic University Islamabad, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Charles OwensJiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Healthcare access is a fundamental human right, yet barriers often negatively impact health, particularly in developing countries like Pakistan, where maternal mortality remains a crisis. This study aimed to identify factors influencing healthcare access barriers among married women aged 15-49 years using spatial analysis.

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barriers to careDemographic and Health Survey (DHS)geospatial disparities Geographically Weighted Regressionhealthcare accesshealth inequalitieshealth policymaternal healthPakistanspatial analysiswomen’s health

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PMID41095534
PMCPMC12523944

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