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Physical accessibility and utilization of health services in Yemen [PDF]
International Journal of Health Geographics, 2010 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 countries. However, such data inputs hardly exist in many developing countries. Straight-line distances between the
Al-Taiar, Abdullah +3 more
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Accessibility of adolescent health services
Curationis, 2000 Adolescents represent a large proportion of the population. As they mature and become sexually active, they face more serious health risks. Most face these risks with too little factual information, too little guidance about sexual responsibility and multiple barriers to accessing health care.
S Richter
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Accessibility of migrants to mental health services
European Psychiatry, 2022 IntroductionCultural barriers and prejudices of mental healthcare professionals may promote inequalities in the provision of care to immigrant population and have a negative impact in provided service quality.ObjectivesTo identify barriers and facilitators of immigrants’ accessibility to mental health services.MethodsA literature review has been made ...
A. Zartaloudi
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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 ...
Paul Stallard, Neil Simpson
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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 N Mwikisa, Catharina Hjortsberg
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Accessibility to health services in Italy and in the world [PDF]
European Journal of Public Health, 2020 Abstract Background The Universal Health Coverage (UHC) proposes that an ideal health system must be able to extend the health coverage to the whole population (universality), to guarantee all the necessary services (globality) and to do it without additional direct costs for the people (free of ...
Marchetti, G +4 more
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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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Immigration Policy and Access to Health Services [PDF]
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 2013 Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), added in 1996, authorizes the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) to enter into agreements with state and local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration law during their regular, daily law-enforcement activity (www.ice.gov/287g). The original intent was to “target and
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Health services accessibility among Spanish elderly
Social Science & Medicine, 2000 The paper aims to identify the variables that best explain the use of health services by people aged 65 and over in Spain. The data comes from the 1993 Spanish National Health Survey (ENSE 93). The conceptual framework is the model proposed by Andersen, who suggests that utilisation is a function of predisposition to use the services, the ability to ...
Fernández-Mayoralas, Gloria +2 more
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Health financing and access to services [PDF]
The Lancet, 2005 Andy Haines +5 more
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