"Sighted People Have Their Pick Of The Litter": Unpacking The Need For Digital Mental Health (DMH) Tracking Services With And For The Blind Community [PDF]
The proliferation of digital mental health (DMH) tracking services promises personalized support, yet accessibility barriers limit equal access. This study investigates blind community experiences with DMH tracking services across the United States as a step toward inclusive health technology design.
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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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Access and utilisation of maternity care for disabled women who experience domestic abuse:a systematic review [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: Although disabled women are significantly more likely to experience domestic abuse during pregnancy than non-disabled women, very little is known about how maternity care access and utilisation is affected by the co-existence of disability ...
AC Huth-Bocks +64 more
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SPATIAL ACCESSIBILITY OF HEALTH CARE IN INDIANA [PDF]
Healthy populations and access to health care services are significant factors influencing economic development and prosperity. Since geographic access is an essential feature of an overall health system, it is important for health service researchers to
Brigitte S. WALDORF +2 more
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Aksesibilitas Menuju Fasilitas Kesehatan Di Kota Bandung [PDF]
, 2013 Accessibility influences people's chance to reach health facilities. The purposes of this study are to analyze the accessibility to reach health facilities and to compare the accessibility for different classes of health facilities in Bandung.
Hadi, P. L. (Prayoga) +2 more
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Development of Wearable Systems for Ubiquitous Healthcare Service Provisioning [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 This paper reports on the development of a wearable system using wireless biomedical sensors for ubiquitous healthcare service provisioning. The prototype system is developed to address current healthcare challenges such as increasing cost of services, inability to access diverse services, low quality services and increasing population of elderly as ...
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ADDRESSING GAPS IN THE DELIVERY OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: THE CASE OF ONE INNER-CITY COMMUNITY [PDF]
, 1981 The need for more effective approaches to the delivery of health and social services in inner-city communities is well established. Attempts to improve service delivery in such areas as housing, health care and job training usually concentrate on ...
Dawkins, Cecilia E.
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Optimizing the Access to Healthcare Services in Dense Refugee Hosting Urban Areas: A Case for Istanbul [PDF]
, 2019 With over 3.5 million refugees, Turkey continues to host the world's largest refugee population. This introduced several challenges in many areas including access to healthcare system. Refugees have legal rights to free healthcare services in Turkey's public hospitals.
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INEQUALITIES OF POPULATION ACCESIBILITY TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES IN THE BOTOSANI COUNTY (ROMANIA)
Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2016 The population access to health care services is conditioned on the offer of medical services, which being unevenly distributed determines a limited access of the population, especially in rural areas.
Teodora Estera Ursulica
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The tyranny of distance – mapping accessibility to polysomnography services across Australia [PDF]
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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