I'm trying to understand what their actual definition of a Pharmacy Desert is, as they don't seem to define it. A search suggests it might be having no pharmacy within 1 mile in a city or 10 miles in a rural area.
I'm guessing I've lived most of my life in a pharmacy desert without realising it.
Looks like I'm 18 km (23 km by road) from a pharmacy to the north and 22 km (28 km by road) to the south, but the one I actually go to because it has longer hours (7 days until 9 PM) is 32 km drive.
On the other hand, when I lived in Russia every street had a pharmacy seemingly about every 300m, and people ran to them for the slightest sniffle. That's probably why they have such a good life expectancy.
The paper describes it as communities >=10 miles from the nearest pharmacy. This is a pretty garbage definition in my opinion, if you are somewhere like the Midwest or the basin and range.
I'm guessing I've lived most of my life in a pharmacy desert without realising it.
Looks like I'm 18 km (23 km by road) from a pharmacy to the north and 22 km (28 km by road) to the south, but the one I actually go to because it has longer hours (7 days until 9 PM) is 32 km drive.
On the other hand, when I lived in Russia every street had a pharmacy seemingly about every 300m, and people ran to them for the slightest sniffle. That's probably why they have such a good life expectancy.