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Cost of access to health services in Zambia [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2002 Equity is an important policy objective in the health care field. The importance of equity in health care provision can be argued from various points of view. As a result governments in all countries attempt to provide health care systems that enable equal access for everyone. Zambia is no exception.
C A, Hjortsberg, C N, Mwikisa
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Measuring access to health services: General Dental Services in Scotland [PDF]
British Dental Journal, 2005 Recently the issue of access to health services has been brought into sharp focus by clear evidence of rationing--patients queuing for NHS registration--in the NHS General Dental Services (GDS). Conventional estimates suggest that about 50% of adults are registered per annum.
Tilley, C. J., Chalkley, M. J.
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Improving access to refractive and eye health services
Community Eye Health Journal, 2016 Avoidable blindness and vision impairment affects 741 million people worldwide. Uncorrected refractive error (URE) is the major cause, accounting for 84% of all cases, or 625 million people. Despite URE being easily detected, measured and corrected, many
Luigi Bilotto +5 more
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Inequities in vulnerable children's access to health services in Australia. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2022 INTRODUCTION: Children born into families at risk of becoming or remaining poor are at significant risk of experiencing childhood poverty, which can impair their start to life, and perpetuate intergenerational cycles of poverty.
Bull C, Howie P, Callander EJ.
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BMC Public Health, 2022 Background About half of first- or second-generation Australians are born overseas, and one-in-five speak English as their second language at home which often are referred to as Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations.
R. Khatri, Yibeltal Assefa
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Barriers to the access of people with disabilities to health services: a scoping review
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2022 OBJECTIVE To analyze the scientific evidence regarding barriers to the access of people with disabilities to health services. METHODS A scoping review was carried out from the main question: “What are the main barriers that people with disabilities face ...
Karina Aparecida Padilha Clemente +6 more
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Factors associated with poor access to health services in Brazil.
Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology, 2020 OBJECTIVE To analyze factors associated with poor access to health services among the Brazilian population aged 19 years or older. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study based on data from the 2013 National Health Survey, obtained from a complex ...
Marianny Nayara Paiva Dantas +5 more
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Referral and access to children's health services [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2004 A single point of entry model The Children’s National Service Framework has identified access as a core theme and aims to develop standards to ensure better access and smoother progression in the provision of services.1 The need for better coordination was highlighted by the Bristol Children’s Enquiry which recommended that “there must be a greater ...
N, Simpson, P, Stallard
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Access of the black population to health services: integrative review.
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020 OBJECTIVES demonstrate and discuss how the black population's access to health services occurs Methods: integrative literature review with the following question: How does the black population's access to health services occur? The search was carried out
Nelma Nunes da Silva +5 more
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Removing financial barriers to access reproductive, maternal and newborn health services: the challenges and policy implications for human resources for health. [PDF]
, 2013 The last decade has seen widespread retreat from user fees with the intention to reduce financial constraints to users in accessing health care and in particular improving access to reproductive, maternal and newborn health services.
Barbara McPake +22 more
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