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Care for ill-housed persons: access and professional proactivity in primary care [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem
Objectives: to understand access to primary care for ill-housed persons and professional proactivity in municipalities without a Street Outreach Office.
Lucas Alves Gontijo, Bruna Moreira da Silva, Marcelo Pedra Martins Machado, Daniela Priscila Oliveira do Vale Tafner, Edilene Aparecida Araújo da Silveira, Valéria Conceição de Oliveira, Eliete Albano de Azevedo Guimarães, Selma Maria da Fonseca Viegas   +7 more
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AcceSS and Equity in Transplantation (ASSET) New Zealand: Protocol for population-wide data linkage platform to investigate equity in access to kidney failure health services in New Zealand.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundKidney transplantation is considered the ideal treatment for most people with kidney failure, conferring both survival and quality of life advantages, and is more cost effective than dialysis.
Rachel B Cutting, Angela C Webster, Nicholas B Cross, Heather Dunckley, Ben Beaglehole, Ian Dittmer, John Irvine, Curtis Walker, Merryn Jones, Melanie Wyld, Patrick J Kelly, Kate Wyburn, Nicole L De La Mata   +12 more
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Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Access to adequate health services that is of acceptable quality is important in the move towards universal health coverage. However, previous studies have revealed inequities in health care utilisation in the favour of the rich.
Phiri, Jane, Jane Phiri, Ataguba, John E, John E Ataguba   +3 more
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Horizontal Inequity in Access to Health Care in Four South American Cities [PDF]

This paper analyzes and compares socioeconomic inequalities in the use of healthcare services by the elderly in four South-American cities: Buenos Aires, Santiago, Montevideo and San Pablo.
Máximo Rossi, Ana Balsa, Patricia Triunfo   +2 more
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Identifying technology industry-led initiatives to address digital health equity

Digital Health, 2021
Objective The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted various barriers to health and the necessity of having access to digital health services. The technology industry can support addressing health barriers, promoting health equity and partnering with ...
Keri Durocher, Navi Boparai, Damian Jankowicz, Gillian Strudwick   +3 more
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China’s New Cooperative Medical Scheme and equity in access to health care: evidence from a longitudinal household survey. [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) was brought to life in 2003 in response to the deterioration in access to health services in rural areas.
Wei Yang, Yang, Wei, Yang, Wei; id_orcid
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Is healthcare really equal for all? Assessing the horizontal and vertical equity in healthcare utilisation among older Ghanaians

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background There is a lack of focused research on the older population in Ghana and about issues pertaining to their access to healthcare services. Furthermore, information is lacking regarding the fairness in the access to these services.
Vincent Dei, Miguel San Sebastian
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Examining equity in a void of evidence - Pharmacist minor ailments services and the role of systematic reviews

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022
Pharmacist minor ailment services (PMAS) are formalised services which remunerate pharmacists for delivering care and providing medicines used to treat minor ailments such as hayfever, musculoskeletal pain, head lice and constipation.
Joanna Hikaka, Robert Haua
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Physical accessibility and utilization of health services in Yemen. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Assessment of physical access to health services is extremely important for planning. Complex methods that incorporate data inputs from road networks and transport systems are used to assess physical access to healthcare in industrialised ...
Longenecker Joseph C, Abdullah Al-Taiar, Longenecker, Joseph C., Christopher JM Whitty, Al-Taiar Abdullah, Joseph C Longenecker, Al-Taiar, Abdullah, Clark, Allan, Longenecker, Joseph C, Allan Clark, Whitty, Christopher JM, Clark Allan, Whitty, Christopher J. M., Whitty Christopher JM   +13 more
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How equitable are community health worker programmes and which programme features influence equity of community health worker services? A systematic review

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background Community health workers (CHWs) are uniquely placed to link communities with the health system, playing a role in improving the reach of health systems and bringing health services closer to hard-to-reach and marginalised groups.
Rosalind McCollum, Woedem Gomez, Sally Theobald, Miriam Taegtmeyer   +3 more
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