... cooking set, blanket, livestock, or food-stocks), andaccessto agricultural fields To estimate accesstohealth 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, andto assess their accesstohealth ... Alberti et al Conflict andHealth 2010, 4:17 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/17 and can include primary and secondary health care, emergency surgery, therapeutic treatment...
... important topic of Health Economics, with growing relevance, is the study of accessto healthcare Because accessto healthcare is a central policy objective in most health systems, there is the need to ... HOSPITALIZATION OF AMBULATORY CARE SENSITIVE CONDITIONS ANDACCESSTO PRIMARY CARE IN PORTUGAL 110 Introduction 111 A model of accesstohealthcare 115 2.1 ... conceptual definition of access, which allows the formulation of policies to promote accessto healthcare and the monitoring of the results of these policies In many health systems access is a concept...
... collaborations and partnerships to provide improved and more consistent careto women needing (1) cervical cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment services, and (2) care for other health conditions to ... Department of Managed HealthCareto adopt, not later than January 1, 2006, regulations establishing standards and requirements to provide healthcare service plan enrollees with accessto language assistance ... obtaining healthcare services The regulations would require standard and specialized healthcare service plans to implement programs to assess enrollee needs, to provide translation and interpretation...
... poor oral healthand poor accessto dental care, bring into sharp focus the imperative to remedy the inadequacies in accessto 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 accessto dental care in Medicaid and SCHIP, andto exchange information and assessments about ... take related to each of several key dimensions of children’s accessto oral healthcare in Medicaid and SCHIP In addition, they articulated larger, systemic barriers toaccessandcare that must...
... Health A Special Addition to Staying Healthy: An English Learner’s Guide toHealthCareand 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 toHealthCareand Healthy Living, and its additional components Women’s Healthand Coping with Stress may be ordered...
... changes to NIHB policies to increase accessto emergency and alternative contraceptives, counselling on sexual and mental health, and midwifery, andto encourage a return of traditional birthing to ... 24.1, and 24.2 (Appendix 1) Develop cultural competence among healthcare providers, so that care is offered in a culturally safe Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Realities andAccessto ... 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 tocare that...
... Disability andaccessto healthcare 34 Women andaccessto 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 andaccessto healthcare III ACCESSTO HEALTHCARE The concept of access, ‘use of healthcare by those who need it’ ... public health system, unregulated growth of the private sector and restricted accessto healthcare systems leading to a near -to tal ecli pse of avail abil ity and accessibility of universal and...
... ate and whether they were able to satisfy their hunger, and their ability toaccesshealthcare Data were cleaned by checking and correcting entry errors and inconsistencies, then entered on to ... Yes 100%/ o 0% Pensioners’ accesstohealthcare The distance to the nearest healthcare 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 accesstohealthand selected foodstuffs Pensioner’s accessto food The elderly reported an increased accessto food...
... Healthcare Research and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, National Institutes of Health, and Office of Minority Health www.firstgov.gov Education and Training • Healthand ... ramifications for healthcare professionals It is up to the healthcare 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...
... maternal and child healthand 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 accessto all health professionals andto 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...
... International Society for Nurses in Cancer Care, Early Detection andAccesstoCare • 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, healthcare workers, and others in the community...
... due to their vulnerable situation andto cultural obstacles in host countries These health risks increase when compounded by limited accesstohealthcare services [1-3] Poor accesstohealthcare ... various obstacles in accesstohealthcare 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: Accesstohealthcare services Turkish Immigrants (Group A) n % 296 96.1 Accesstohealthcare services Turkish Cypriots (Group B) n % 107 99.1 Total n 403 % 96.9 Registered...
... Port-au-Prince (Cité Soleil and Martissant) to assess exposure to violence andaccesstohealthcare 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, andaccesstohealthcare services The survey covered the period January 2006 to the end ... known risk factors for poor health outcomes (in this instance accesstohealthcare post-violence) have been argued to be more useful indicators for targeting relief programmes [7] Taken together,...
... value to spine care, regulatory and legislative bodies that may have to institute changes in allowing this area of healthcareto 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 healthcare system Primary spine care practitioners would have to be adequately paid for activities such as patient education, coordination of careand stay at...
... 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 careand 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...
... 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 Accessto 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...
... gain accessto the formal sources Enterprises that want to expand beyond the limits of self-finance but lack accessto 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’...
... organization that works to increase accessto quality, affordable healthcare They operate a helpline to assist individuals and families with applying for free and low-cost healthcare programs CHC ... www.kingsleyassociation.org 412-661-8751 HealthCare for the Homeless Healthcare for the homeless provides medical care, dental care, vision services, mental healthand 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...
... to the occurrence of chronic illness, poverty and victimization where racial minorities and women have been shown to experience greater healthand social issues and lack of accesstohealthcare ... care Crosato and Leipert (2006) note that rural women caregivers face many challenges in providing quality care for an elder These included “limited accessto adequate and appropriate healthcare ... to assist her andto 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...
... birth [9] In addition to income, education, and occupation, accesstohealthcare is a vital determinant of health regardless of the nation’s income level [5] Yet, the accesstocare problem has not ... that accesstohealthcare is not assured equally to the elderly despite a universal healthcare system in Japan Under the pressure of curtailing rising healthcare cost, the Ministry of Health, ... elderly were the burden of healthcare costs and distance As causes of differential health- care access, there is a lack of available services and economic barriers tocare [5] The WHO urged for...