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O Estado das Disparidades em Saúde dos Luso-Americanos

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2021
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Carlos A.O. Pavão, Grayson E. Gunn, Rebecca G. Golden   +2 more
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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, Francisca Crispi, Tania Alfaro, María Soledad Martínez, Cristóbal Cuadrado   +4 more
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The association between breast cancer capacity and resources with incidence and mortality in Arizona’s low populous counties

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, Prashanthinie Mohan, Daniel Derksen, William Cance, Leila Barraza, Elizabeth Jacobs, Elizabeth Calhoun   +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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Experience of Visiting an Urban Slum: A Medical Student’s Perspective

Journal of Nepal Medical Association
Urban slums are densely populated areas characterized by inadequate housing, poor sanitation, and limited access to essential services. As part of the MBBS curriculum at Patan Academy of Health Sciences (PAHS), we visited an urban slum in Balkhu to ...
Prabuddha Bajracharya
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Access barriers to medical facilities for people with physical disabilities: the case of Peru [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2019
: People with disabilities (PWD) face several challenges accessing medical services. However, the extent to which architectural and transportation barriers impede access to healthcare is unknown.
Miguel Moscoso-Porras, Amy Katherine Fuhs, Angela Carbone   +2 more
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Physical accessibility and utilization of health services in Yemen

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, Al-Taiar Abdullah, Longenecker Joseph C, Whitty Christopher JM   +3 more
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Assesing Health Services in Colombia: Development of a Conceptual Framework and Measurement tools based on primary data

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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Prevalence of 21 Physician‐Defined Severe Toxicities Following Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment: Australian Retrospective Cohort Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, with an overall survival now surpassing 90% in developed countries. However, treatments are not without adverse effects. In this study, we apply the severe toxicity‐free survival (STFS) framework to determine the prevalence of 21 physician‐defined severe ...
Lane Collier, Brittany Grantham, Camilla Grud Nielsen, Louise Lundgren, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Chris Selman, Gareth Ball, Elyse Passmore, David A. Elliott, Rachel Conyers   +10 more
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Frequency, inequalities and spatial distribution of oral health services utilization in Peruvian children under twelve years of age: a population-based comparative analysis of the years 2017 and 2021

BMC Oral Health, 2023
Background Oral diseases pose a significant public health challenge among Peruvian children. However, oral health services utilization among them is marked by inequalities, which may have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Diego Azañedo, Akram Hernández-Vásquez, Fabriccio J. Visconti-Lopez, Efrain Y. Turpo Cayo   +3 more
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