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Equity of access to health care services:
Social Science and Medicine, 2001Maria Goddard, Peter C Smith
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Equity of Accessibility to Health Care Services and Identification of Underserved Areas
Chinese Geographical Science, 2021Characterizing the availability of opportunities to residents has been a long-term aim in health care geographic investigation. It is important to measure the degree of inequity in health care accessibility and to identify underserved areas, due to the uneven distribution of health care services.
Donghua Wang, Xiaoshu Cao, Xiaoyan Huang
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Equity, Access to Health Care Services and Expenditures on Health in Nicaragua
, 2008 Nicaragua has embarked on an ambitious health sector program, which has contributed to significant progress in the health sector over the past decade.
Rafael Cortez +2 more
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Equity in Access to Health Services in Developing Countries
Revue d'économie du développement, 2010In the decade 2000-2010, development policy has given health care higher priority, which has translated as a sharp global increase in health expenditure. This increase can only effectively help reduce poverty if the expenditure is efficient and if access to health services becomes more equitable.
Jean-Claude Berthélemy, Juliette Seban
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Balancing efficiency of health services and equity of access in remote areas in Greece
Health Policy, 2006Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was used to investigate the efficiency of a set of small-scaled Greek hospitals known as hospital-health centers (HHCs). These facilities naturally provide primary and secondary care but are also expected to function as health centers addressing mostly preventive medicine, hygiene and other public health issues. They are
Nick, Kontodimopoulos +2 more
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Equity, Access, and the Costs of Health Services
Medical Care, 1981Access to health care services for the poor and elderly have improved dramatically over the last 15 years, largely as a result of Medicare, Medicaid, and other Federal initiatives. The poor now consume roughly the same volume of health services as the nonpoor.
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Capacitated Preventive Health Infrastructure Planning with Accessibility-Based Service Equity
Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2023202306 bcch ; Accepted Manuscript ; Others ; Key project of philosophy and social science research in colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province; Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Hong Kong Polytechnic University ; Published ; Green (AAM)
Hongzhi Lin, Min Xu
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Equity and access: understanding emergency health service use by newly arrived refugees
Medical Journal of Australia, 2011To determine issues that affect newly resettled refugees in accessing an emergency department (ED).We conducted a descriptive community survey using a semistructured questionnaire. Newly resettled refugees from the Middle East and Africa were interviewed, statistical analysis was performed, and standard content analysis methods were applied to free ...
Sheikh, Mohamud +6 more
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Equity of access to health care services: theory and evidence from the UK.
Social science & medicine (1982), 2001The pursuit of equity of access to health care is a central objective of many health care systems. This paper first sets out a general theoretical framework within which equity of access can be examined. It then applies the framework by examining the extent to which research evidence has been able to detect systematic inequities of access in UK, where ...
Goddard, M., Smith, P.
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An audit of equity of access in an Older Person’s mental health services
FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older PeopleThe aim of this audit is to assess whether service users of an Older Adult Community Treatment Team (CTT) and Psychology service are representative of the general population of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Tyneside in the north-east of England, and as such whether equitable care is provided by the service.
Sarah Page, Sairah Pervez
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