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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Access to health care services"”.
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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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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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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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Reach out and be healed : constitutional rights to traditional African healing
The introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 has made lawful the practice of traditional healing. As everyone has the right of access to health care services, the question of whether the state bears a duty to reasonably provide access to traditional healing as an element …
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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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Justice in Health Care Access Measuring Attitudes of Health Care Professionals
To measure attitudes toward justice in access to health care services in managed care plans in a convenience sample of medical professionals at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Methods. A sixteen item, self-administered instrument based on Morreim's four concepts of justice in …
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Experiences of Stigma During Sexual Healthcare Visits: A Qualitative Study of Non-Monogamous Women
Access to health care services is critical to both personal health outcomes and health equity within a community. While non-monogamous behavior is widespread, stigma surrounding consensual non-monogamy can create barriers to health care access. This research outlines the experiences of …
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Barriers to healthcare access by undocumented migrants in low-and middle-income countries: A qualitative systematic review
Undocumented migrants experience many barriers to accessing health systems around the globe. Although these barriers are well documented in the context of migration from low- and middle- to high-income countries, less attention has been paid to irregular migration within low- and middle-income …
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Inequality in Access to, and Utilization of, Health Care - The Case of African American and Non-Hispanic White Males
… Panel Survey, the study compares (1) the accessibility, and (2) the predictors of health care services utilization among African American and non-Hispanic White males, 18 to 65 years old in the United States. Using ANOVA procedure in comparing the means for use of physicians, hospitals, …
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The contribution of pro-poor growth programmes to poverty reduction in Rwanda : a case study of the Girinka Programme in rural Rwanda
… a pro-poor growth programme in Rwanda, to poverty reduction. Recent studies have placed increasing emphasis on the contribution of pro-poor growth to poverty reduction and have argued that pro-poor growth has the potential to reduce poverty more effectively than economic growth. Poverty, …
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Factors that affect the utilisation of primary health care services: perception of community in selected villages of Sekhukhune District, South Africa
Primary Health Care utilisation and the quality of health care delivery globally have recently been regarded as poor, more especially in the developing countries. In South Africa 84% of the population depends on the government health care system. The South African health system has adopted the PHC …
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Retirement migration, the other story: the lived experiences of vulnerable, older British migrants in Spain
… nationals. Most retire abroad when they are healthy; however, happy and fulfilling retired lives in Spain can abruptly change when a person's resources (bodily, economic and social) for independent living diminish. Therefore, the onset of old age can bring about severe vulnerability and the …
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Access to educational and health care services for school-age children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
… disorder (ADHD) use educational services and health care services for ameliorating its symptoms and problems. Both civil rights legislation and special education legislation support educational services for children with ADHD, but a change in special education legislative policy …
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Identification Of Essential Content On Caring For Persons With Schizophrenia And Medical Comorbidities For Non-Psychiatric Nurses
<p>Aim. To identify essential content for a learning program on caring for persons with schizophrenia and medical comorbidities for non-psychiatric nurses.</p> <p>Background. Approximately 30-40% of medically hospitalized patients carry psychiatric diagnoses. They have complex medical needs and …
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Internally displaced children and HIV in situations of armed conflict in the DRC : a study of the obligations of the government and selected non-state actors
… law obligations of the government and nonstate actors regarding the protection of internally displaced children living with HIV in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The war and armed conflicts in the Eastern DRC have exacerbated the vulnerability of children, causing them to be separated from …
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À espera do cuidado: caminhos na implantação da rede de cuidados à pessoa com deficiência no Espírito Santo.
The implementation of the Care Network for People with Disabilities (RCPD) in 2012 is a milestone in the provision of comprehensive health care for this population, rescuing the principle of decentralization of care in rehabilitation to facilitate access to health care services. However, after ten …
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Essays in health economics
One of the main goals of public health insurance expansions is to increase access to health care services, but doing so may require providers to move to previously underserved areas. Whether and to what extent any such relocation occurs remains an open question. In the first essay, I study how …
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User accessibility to refractive error correction services in selected Zambian hospitals
… and middle-income countries like Zambia, where access to Refractive Error Correction Services (RECS) is limited. This study aimed to assess the user's accessibility to RECS in selected Zambian Hospitals. Methods: Twenty (20) public health facilities offering RECS were conveniently selected using …
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