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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"Access to Health Care"”.
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Individual responsibility, justice and access to health care
The aim of this thesis is to examine whether it is morally defensible to use lifestyle as one of the criteria for rationing health care. I argue that it is not justifiable to use former lifestyle to select patients for treatment. Chapter one outlines the principles of the NHS and discusses the …
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Investigating the determinants of access to health care services in Namibia
… community characteristics and health services utilisation in extant literature is relatively broad. Using data adopted from the Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey (NHIES) conducted between April 2015 and March 2016, this thesis investigated the determinants of …
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EXPLORING REFUGEE WOMEN’S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES: THE FIRST YEAR
… a significant rise in the number of refugees due to wars and conflicts, making war, conflicts and the increasing number of refugees a global concern. Before entering a host country, refugees often live in camps, with limited health care resources, inadequate food and water, and no access to …
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Improving transportation access to health care : addressing the needs of the elderly
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
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The Wrath of Ignorance: Schizophrenic Policies in Access to Health Care for Undocumented Latinas
This study focuses on the problems of health care access experienced by undocumented Latinas: women from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Those who are undocumented may encounter significantly reduced access to health care, for the risk of discovery causes them to be more …
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Bridging the knowledge gap: Operational research to improve access to health care in Ethiopia
… : 183418.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Access to Health Care at the Margins: Implications for Older Sexual Minority Women with Disabilities
Counselors are called to address barriers to human growth and development through advocacy (ACA, 2014), such as those posed by inequitable health care access for socially disadvantaged groups (CDC, 2013; IOM, 2011). Health care contributes to positive health outcomes (Healthy People 2020) and is …
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Community health insurance as a viable means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda
… study investigated the viability of community health insurance (CHI) as a means of increasing access to health care for rural households in Uganda. This was against the background that health care is a basic need and right and that, despite this, households especially in the rural parts of …
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Leg ulceration: An exploration of the role of socio-economic factors in the epidemiology, access to health care and outcomes.
Background Tackling health inequalities has been a priority policy area for the NHS since the 1990’s. To date there has been scant research addressing this area in relation to leg ulcers, despite there being some evidence of inequalities in leg ulcer prevalence. The overarching aim of this thesis …
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Extending health services to rural residents in Jirapa District. Analyses of national health insurance enrolment and access to health care services
This thesis sheds light on differences in health insurance enrolment determinants and uptake barriers between urban and rural areas in the Jirapa district of Ghana. The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana has made significant progress in terms of enrolment, which has had a commensurate …
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Measuring equity in access to health care : a case study of malaria control interventions in the Kassena-Nankana district of Northen Ghana
… develops a methodology for measuring equity in access to health care. The thesis deconstructs the concept of access into dimensions that represent the supply and demand side of health care and tests each of these dimensions by using the example of access to malaria services in the …
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'Don't send your sick here to be treated, our own people need it more': immigrants' access to health care in South Africa
… particularly for refugees and migrants and doctors in South Africa. The core idea of the Bill of Rights is that socio-economic rights are for everyone. Yet, its application suggests everyone means all citizens in the post-apartheid period, rather than all residents in South Africa. In the …
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Chinese immigrants to Finland : A qualitative study of housing, employment, access to health care and child care as sociological dimensions in their settlement process
… based on interviews of 15 Chinese immigrants to Finland in order to provide a sociological perspective of the migration experience through the eyes of Chinese immigrants in the Finnish social welfare context. This research is mainly focused upon four crucial aspects of life in the settlement …
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The impact of the National Health Insurance Scheme on the interactions between providers and clients in the Bolgatanga and Builsa districts of Ghana
Prepayments and risk pooling through social health insurance has been advocated by international development organizations. Social health insurance is seen as a mechanism that helps mobilize resources for health, pool risk, and provide more access to health care services for the poor. Hence Ghana …
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Health care access of Hispanic immigrants in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
The purpose of this study is to discover what factors affect health care access for Hispanics in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The Hispanic population is the largest and fastest growing immigrant groups in the US and warrants special attention because Hispanics are less likely to complete high …
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Deaf Futures: Challenges in Accessing Health Care Services
The purpose of this research is to explore the structural forces that limit the access to health care services for Deaf people. Literature has acknowledged the disconnection between the Deaf and hearing worlds, particularly in health care. Much of the existing literature exploring these fields have …
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The Impacts of Health Care Reconfiguration on Patient Access to Services: A Case Study of Nenagh General Hospital
Access to health care is becoming a popular area of research in health geography especially in relation to service provision and policy planning. Since 2006, many changes to health policy have been made by the Irish government which have been both supported and opposed at a local level. The …
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