Methodology
How We Evaluate Healthcare Access
How healthcare access, hospital context, primary care, specialist access, and pharmacy signals are normalized.
How this supports retirement decisions
- Healthcare access combines prepared city-level healthcare fields such as hospital access, primary care, specialist access, pharmacy context, and emergency care where available.
- Healthcare filters and rankings use these prepared fields so the homepage does not need to scan full city payloads during each request.
How to use this metric
Use methodology pages to understand what a list, filter, or ranking is trying to measure before treating a city as a match. A strong metric is a starting point for deeper review, not a personal relocation recommendation.