justice and access to health care

... cooking set, blanket, livestock, or food-stocks), and access to agricultural fields To estimate access to health care, information was collected on the last household member to be ill, if the illness ... of actors (Solidarité, Merlin, MSF, UNICEF, Save the Children) In May 2009, to understand the impact of the renewed conflict on selected civilian populations, and to assess their access to health ... Alberti et al Conflict and Health 2010, 4:17 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/17 and can include primary and secondary health care, emergency surgery, therapeutic treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... important topic of Health Economics, with growing relevance, is the study of access to healthcare Because access to healthcare is a central policy objective in most health systems, there is the need to ... HOSPITALIZATION OF AMBULATORY CARE SENSITIVE CONDITIONS AND ACCESS TO PRIMARY CARE IN PORTUGAL 110 Introduction 111 A model of access to health care 115 2.1 ... conceptual definition of access, which allows the formulation of policies to promote access to healthcare and the monitoring of the results of these policies In many health systems access is a concept...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2016, 20:35

... collaborations and partnerships to provide improved and more consistent care to women needing (1) cervical cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment services, and (2) care for other health conditions to ... Department of Managed Health Care to adopt, not later than January 1, 2006, regulations establishing standards and requirements to provide health care service plan enrollees with access to language assistance ... obtaining health care services The regulations would require standard and specialized health care service plans to implement programs to assess enrollee needs, to provide translation and interpretation...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... poor oral health and poor access to dental care, bring into sharp focus the imperative to remedy the inadequacies in access to dental care in Medicaid and SCHIP, and the opportunities to so In ... policy officials and program administrators, dental professionals, and others, to discuss children’s access to dental care in Medicaid and SCHIP, and to exchange information and assessments about ... take related to each of several key dimensions of children’s access to oral health care in Medicaid and SCHIP In addition, they articulated larger, systemic barriers to access and care that must...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... Health A Special Addition to Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living Naomi Soto, Maria Koonce, Gregory Smith Florida Literacy Coalition Florida’s Adult and ... Nelly Ford, Pam Fulton, Melissa Berlin, Amada Soto, LPN, and Heide Castañeda, PhD, MPH CREDITS Stock Photography and Illustrations by ISTOCKPHOTO®, BIGSTOCK®, DREAMSTIME®, and the Susan G Komen ... Komen Race for the Cure Copies of Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living, and its additional components Women’s Health and Coping with Stress may be ordered...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 13:20

... changes to NIHB policies to increase access to emergency and alternative contraceptives, counselling on sexual and mental health, and midwifery, and to encourage a return of traditional birthing to ... 24.1, and 24.2 (Appendix 1) Develop cultural competence among health care providers, so that care is offered in a culturally safe Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Realities and Access to ... Culturally safe care refers to the integration and transformation of knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific standards of care, policies, and practices It refers to care that...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... Disability and access to healthcare 34 Women and access to mental healthcare 35 Occupational health 36 Reproductive health services 37 Informal healthcare ... consume much of women’s time and energies reflect in their inferior health status and access to healthcare III ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE The concept of access, ‘use of healthcare by those who need it’ ... public health system, unregulated growth of the private sector and restricted access to healthcare systems leading to a near -to tal ecli pse of avail abil ity and accessibility of universal and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... ate and whether they were able to satisfy their hunger, and their ability to access health care Data were cleaned by checking and correcting entry errors and inconsistencies, then entered on to ... Yes 100%/ o 0% Pensioners’ access to health care The distance to the nearest health care services was established so as to determine how far Pensioners need to travel to reach them (Table 2) The ... 46% 1% Healthy Aging & Clinical Care in the Elderly 2012:4 mpact of pension on access to health and selected foodstuffs Pensioner’s access to food The elderly reported an increased access to food...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Institutes of Health, and Office of Minority Health www.firstgov.gov Education and Training • Health and ... ramifications for health care professionals It is up to the health care system to be sure patients understand the information they receive well enough to apply it • The Food and Drug Administration, ... functional health literacy are less likely to: 5-7 • Understand written and oral information given by physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and insurers • Be able to navigate the health system to obtain...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... maternal and child health and HIV services and also increase demand and use of these services Challenges and barriers to improving access The overall shortage of skilled health workers and inadequate ... Global Plan need to recognise continuity in access to all health professionals and to auxiliaries and lay workers across the continuum of care of maternal, neonatal and child health services; ... addition to accountability by health authorities to national government and accountability to regional and global policy commitments;  Indicators for health worker access in the context of EWEC and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... International Society for Nurses in Cancer Care, Early Detection and Access to Care • S25 Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Center, and Cancer Care Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Martin Yaffe, PhD, ... disease presentation, and social and behavioral factors that may influence those patterns A variety of barriers to awareness, seeking and obtaining care, and responsiveness to screening are evident ... account culture, religion, and other factors In both instances, and likely in every setting, tailored approaches will need to be directed toward women, health care workers, and others in the community...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... due to their vulnerable situation and to cultural obstacles in host countries These health risks increase when compounded by limited access to health care services [1-3] Poor access to health care ... various obstacles in access to health care services Studies draw attention to cultural and linguistic barriers and a lack of information or understanding about how the healthcare system works in ... 26.4±4.4 25.7±4.1 Table 3: Access to health care services Turkish Immigrants (Group A) n % 296 96.1 Access to health care services Turkish Cypriots (Group B) n % 107 99.1 Total n 403 % 96.9 Registered...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Port-au-Prince (Cité Soleil and Martissant) to assess exposure to violence and access to health care for civilian victims of violence MSF was treating victims of violence in health structures in these ... August 2007) and Martissant (21 – 31 August 2007) to assess causes of mortality, level and type of violence, and access to health care services The survey covered the period January 2006 to the end ... known risk factors for poor health outcomes (in this instance access to health care post-violence) have been argued to be more useful indicators for targeting relief programmes [7] Taken together,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... value to spine care, regulatory and legislative bodies that may have to institute changes in allowing this area of health care to fully realize its societal benefits and other members of the health ... interventions, an ability to explain them to patients and an ability to follow up with these patients after the intervention to monitor the progress and outcome [68] An understanding of the unique ... primary spine care services into the health care system Primary spine care practitioners would have to be adequately paid for activities such as patient education, coordination of care and stay at...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... with managed care through the workplace will make Medicare managed care more attractive to them than FFS Medicare In addition to the traditional FFS Medicare or Medicare Managed Care (MMC) insurance, ... physical and financial constraints that would impede timely utilization of the healthcare services available to them Impeded access can lead to under-utilization of primary care and preventive care ... vulnerable to impediments to travel and other factors characterizing the spatial interaction between people and their environments In this paper we carefully develop an access- to- care model that...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... statistically to be the most valid predictors of future credit performance The factors and the weights assigned to each one can vary across evaluators and their different models, but the factors generally ... fall into four broad areas: payment history, consumer indebtedness, length of credit history, and the acquisition of new credit.8 Loretta Nott and Angle A Welborn (2003), A Consumer’s Access to a ... credit history score To conduct this exer­ cise, one must know (1) the factors used to construct the score, (2) the points assigned to these factors in deriving an individual’s score, and (3) the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 14:20

... gain access to the formal sources Enterprises that want to expand beyond the limits of self-finance but lack access to bank credit demand external finance, which the informal sector is unable to ... traders and farmers will most likely lead to the development of an informal unit to meet that demand Informal credit therefore seems to develop in response to an existing demand Aryeetey and Udry ... physical access Aryeetey and Gockel (1991) examine some of the factors that influence demand for formal savings and lending facilities in Ghana and observe that incomes, bank formalities and banks’...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... organization that works to increase access to quality, affordable health care They operate a helpline to assist individuals and families with applying for free and low-cost health care programs CHC ... www.kingsleyassociation.org 412-661-8751 Health Care for the Homeless Health care for the homeless provides medical care, dental care, vision services, mental health and substance abuse services, and pharmacy services ... planning and emergency contraception, teen health care, prenatal care, routine gynecological care, breast cancer screening, STD screening and treatment, social services, health information and education...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... to the occurrence of chronic illness, poverty and victimization where racial minorities and women have been shown to experience greater health and social issues and lack of access to health care ... care Crosato and Leipert (2006) note that rural women caregivers face many challenges in providing quality care for an elder These included “limited access to adequate and appropriate healthcare ... to assist her and to make her comfortable, give her medications and what not.” And it would be nice to have that translator too for telling them about the up to date banking, you know, how to...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 16:20

... birth [9] In addition to income, education, and occupation, access to health care is a vital determinant of health regardless of the nation’s income level [5] Yet, the access to care problem has not ... that access to health care is not assured equally to the elderly despite a universal health care system in Japan Under the pressure of curtailing rising health care cost, the Ministry of Health, ... elderly were the burden of health care costs and distance As causes of differential health- care access, there is a lack of available services and economic barriers to care [5] The WHO urged for...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20