  This paper applies economic concepts from measuring income inequality to an
exercise in assessing spatial inequality in cancer service access in regional
areas. We propose a mathematical model for accessing chemotherapy among local
government areas (LGAs). Our model incorporates a distance factor. With a
simulation we report results for a single inequality measure: the Lorenz curve
is depicted for our illustrative data. We develop this approach in order to
move incrementally towards its application to actual data and real-world health
service regions. We seek to develop the exercises that can lead policy makers
to relevant policy information on the most useful data collections to be
collected and modeling for cancer service access in regional areas.
