Equity in access to health services

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Barriers to Access, Pathways to Equity: Clinicians’ Perspectives on Mental Health Service Delivery

BMC Health Services Research
Abstract Background : This study explored clinicians’ perceptions of the barriers that immigrant, refugee, and ethnically diverse populations face in accessing mental health (MH) care in Canada, the challenges clinicians encounter in service delivery, and their
Peddigrew, Emma +4 more
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Building a Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health Care in the Rheumatology Context: Content and Approaches

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
People with systemic autoimmune and rheumatic diseases (SARDs) are at higher risk than the general population of experiencing adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes such as preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and maternal and/or fetal death.
Mehret Birru Talabi, Sonya Borrero
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Maternal characteristics and type of prenatal care associated with peregrination before childbirth

Revista de Saúde Pública
OBJECTIVE To analyze the maternal characteristics and type of prenatal care associated with peregrination before childbirth among pregnant women in a northeastern Brazilian state.
Rosemar Barbosa Mendes +5 more
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Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby +448 more
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A decade of improvements in equity of access to reproductive and maternal health services in Cambodia, 2000–2010 [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013
Despite encouraging reductions in global maternal mortality rates, Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 on reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health remains the most off-track of all MDGs. Furthermore a preoccupation with aggregate coverage statistics masks extensive disparities in health improvements between ...
Dingle, A, Powell-Jackson, T, Goodman, C
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Health Care Use Among Patients Presenting to Emergency Department for Gout Flares in Ontario, Canada: A Population‐Based Health Systems Analysis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We characterized emergency department (ED) gout visits and identified patient characteristics and health services patterns contributing to ED presentations. Methods We conducted a population‐based study of ED gout visits in Ontario, Canada, between 2014 and 2023.
Timothy S. H. Kwok +7 more
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Mechanotransduction of Magnetically Applied Forces Leads to Mechanical Stiffening of Platelet‐Rich Plugs

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A microfluidic device with magnetic microposts was used to assess platelet mechanobiology. The oscillatory actuation of posts with embedded iron particles was dampened by the dynamic stiffening of the platelet‐rich plugs. This stiffening process increased with applied load, but inhibiting platelet activation (ASA) or myosin contractility (blebbistatin)
Nikita Taparia +4 more
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Freedom and equity in Iranian health system: a qualitative study

Payesh, 2017
Objective (s): People are the major recipients of health services, they deserve their selves to have the choice right and equitable access to healthcare services. Health system is responsible for providing the fair services and choice right to the public.
Arash Rashidian, Mohammad Arab, Hakimeh Mostafavi +2 more
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Horizontal equity in access to public GP services by socioeconomic group: potential bias due to a compartmentalised approach

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Horizontal equity in access to public general practitioner (GP) services by socioeconomic group has been addressed econometrically by testing the statement “equal probability of using public GP services for equal health care needs, regardless ...
M. A. Negrín, J. Pinilla, I. Abásolo
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Tropomyosin 1 Promotes Platelet Adhesion and Clot Contraction Separate from Its Roles in Developmental Hematopoiesis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genome‐wide association studies (GWAS) link the Tropomyosin 1 (Tpm1) locus to quantitative blood trait variation, but related mechanisms are unclear. Tpm1 encodes an actin‐binding protein that regulates actin filament diversity, cell adhesion, signaling, and actomyosin contractility.
Po‐Lun Kung +19 more
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