Deborah Roisman

This paper studies the spatial accessibility of Mainland Chinese (MLC) immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) to culturally- and linguistically-diverse family physicians. Data from a random survey of MLC immigrants is used to calibrate parameters in two different accessibility models-the two-step floating catchment area and gravity-type models. This study builds up on previous work on immigrant health and accessibility, contributing to the literature on modelling and accessibility by varying the model parameters instead of taking them as fixed. The findings show that accessibility scores can be improved by varying said parameters, and that there are areas in the CMA where the MLC community is poorly serviced by linguistically-matched family physicians.