Reforms and sanitary covid crisis: have spatial inequalities in resuscitation beds increased since 2008?

Since 2000, bed short-stay hospitalization closures have continued in almost all urban areas, with around sixty of them disappearing altogether. The decrease in the number of short-stay beds is well known. Less well known is the way in which hospital reforms have altered hospital capacities in resuscitation unit. This paper analyses the evolution of the geography of the resuscitation bed equipment, particularly at stake during the COVID-19 epidemic in France. Analysis are cond...