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Physical accessibility and utilization of health services in Yemen [PDF]
International Journal of Health Geographics, 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 ...
Clark Allan +3 more
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Clinical peripherality: development of a peripherality index for rural health services. [PDF]
, 2008 BACKGROUND: The configuration of rural health services is influenced by geography. Rural health practitioners provide a broader range of services to smaller populations scattered over wider areas or more difficult terrain than their urban counterparts ...
Selvaraj, Sivasubramaniam +8 more
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Accessibility, affordability and use of health services in an urban area in South Africa
Curationis, 2015 Background: Inequalities in healthcare between population groups of South Africa existed during the apartheid era and continue to exist both between and within many population groups.
Ethelwynn L. Stellenberg
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Gender disparities in access to care for time-sensitive conditions during COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
BMC Public Health, 2021 Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, reductions in healthcare utilization are reported in different contexts. Nevertheless, studies have not explored specifically gender disparities in access to healthcare in the context of COVID-19.
Jorge Pacheco +4 more
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The tyranny of distance – mapping accessibility to polysomnography services across Australia [PDF]
, 2015 This paper finds that remote and very remote communities continue to experience inequity in health care in accessibility to specialist services such as diagnostic sleep studies.
Cindy Woods
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SAGE Open, 2021 Colombia has a mixed public-private health care system, and although official data indicate more than 95% of health coverage, research in this field has demonstrated the persistence of barriers to accessing health care services.
Marcela Arrivillaga
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Rural and Remote Health, 2021 Introduction: While cancer deaths have decreased nationally, declines have been much slower in rural areas than in urban areas. Previous studies on rural cancer service capacity are limited to specific points along the cancer care continuum (eg ...
Adrienne Lent +6 more
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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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The Effect of Distance to Formal Health Facility on Childhood Mortality in Rural Tanzania, 2005-2007. [PDF]
, 2012 Major improvements are required in the coverage and quality of essential childhood interventions to achieve Millennium Development Goal Four (MDG 4). Long distance to health facilities is one of the known barriers to access. We investigated the effect of
Mathew, Alexander +9 more
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Relationship Between Accessibility to Health Services with Exclusive Breastfeeding
, 2023 Globally, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding is still less than 40%. Exclusive breastfeeding is the appropriate recommendation to build quality human resources. The infant mortality rate has not decreased according to the SDGs target.
Fauziah, Nuraini, Nuraini Fauziah
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