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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"Access to services"”.
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Applying Web-Based Technologies to Better Understand Access to Services using Public Transport
Public transport accessibility is a cornerstone of urban planning, social equity, and sustainability. Yet, maintaining equitable access to essential services in the event of evolving challenges such as population growth, changes in transport configurations and global crises remains a critical …
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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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Access to Services, Quality of Care, and Family Impact for Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A National Perspective Using 2009-2010 Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Survey
The main objective of the study was to examine health care disparities for children with autism spectrum disorders utilizing two studies.;Study 1. A cross sectional study was conducted using the 2009-2010 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (N = 18,702). Chi-square analyses …
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Disability and service delivery perspectives of service users in a rural community in the Eastern Cape
… disabled people have lagged behind in terms of access to services, and that has implications on their enjoyment of socio-economic rights. Although exclusion from access to services is documented in literature, little research has been done to explore rural and disabled people's perspectives on …
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“Where Should I go? Who can I cry to?” The Perspectives of South Asian Immigrant Women In Edmonton who have Experienced Domestic Violence
… women survivors of domestic violence in Edmonton, Alberta. The study explores their experiences and perspectives on domestic violence and the challenges they faced in accessing services and supports in Edmonton. The research questions that guided the study were (a) What are the lived …
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Law, Rights and Reproduction: Reproductive Autonomy in Ethical Rationalism
As medical technology has advanced, so too have our attitudes towards the level of control we can expect to hold over our procreative capacities. This creates a multi-dimensional problem for the law in terms of access to services which prevent conception, access to services which terminate a …
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Perceived Access to Healthcare and Support Services in Icelandic Prisons and Service Utilization Among Male Residents at Vernd
This study examined whether perceived access to healthcare and support services in Icelandic prisons is associated with service utilization among male residents at Vernd, a halfway house in Iceland. The sample consisted of 225 Icelandic-speaking former male inmates who completed a self-report …
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The Politics of Local Service Provision in the United States
… trillion annually on public service provision. Access to reliable public services is essential for health and wellbeing. But there are large disparities in access to services across the country. This dissertation asks why. Specifically, I examine the incentives and constraints that influence …
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Quantifying the value of non-user benefits of improving water and sanitation in informal settlements
… at household level. Why then have the efforts to increase access to services over the last 30 years not achieved the desired results? The value of these benefits, measured through assessments of willingness to pay by the users, is commonly used in investment appraisals as indicators of project …
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Silence to Signs: Bridging the Communiction Gap for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Inmates in Prisons
… explores the failure of American prison systems to provide communication access to deaf and hard of hearing prisoners. Sign language is sparsely accessible to deaf individuals in prisons. Communication and access to language are key to the human condition and democratic participation. When prison …
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The lived experience of being privileged as a white English-speaking young adult in post-apartheid South Africa: a phenomenological study
… still privileged, economically, in terms of access to services, land, education and particularly in the case of English-speaking whites, language. This study is an exploration of everyday situations of inequality as they have been experienced from a position of advantage. As a qualitative, …
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Scrambling for Care: Autism in Rural America
The path to autism diagnosis and intervention has always been arduous, but families in small towns with limited access to healthcare services are at a much greater disadvantage. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the surge in virtual services for autism has offered clinicians and researchers a unique …
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Multimedia session continuity in the IP multimedia subsystem : investigation and testbed implementation
The advent of Internet Protocol (IP) based rich multimedia services and applications has seen rapid growth and adoption in recent years, with an equally increasing user base. Voice over IP (VoIP) and IP Television (IPTV) are key examples of services that are blurring the lines between traditional …
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Fostering Advocacy, Communication, Empowerment, and Support (FACES) for African American families of children with autism: a pilot study
… and their families often face challenges with accessing early intervention and related services. African American children face additional challenges due to disparities in diagnoses and access to services. These disparities present a great need for parent advocacy strategies to combat barriers …
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Public stewardship of private for-profit health care in low- and middle-income countries : a systematic review
… that health care provided in the private sector is not always of high technical quality. Given the need to work with the private sector to increase access to services, various strategies have been proposed that governments can employ to engage the private sector in service provision. These …
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Public and private sector involvement in the provision of electricity in urban areas of South Africa
… the involvement of public and private sector institutions in the provision of electricity in urban areas of South Africa. Access to electricity in South Africa is highly unequal and little progress is currently being made to bring electricity to all, mainly due to institutional and …
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Farmworker families : towards equitable and adequate energy provision
… dimensions, including low cash income, poor access to services, isolation, intermittent and insecure employment, dependence on employers, and limited social, economic and political power to improve their conditions. This study investigates the worker households' access to and use of energy, …
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Residential Constraints and the Political Geography of the Populist Radical Right
… from their key programmatic issues related to immigration and the effects of growing international economic and political integration. To explain this puzzle, I articulate a theory of residential constraints as a key driver of PRR support. I hypothesize that when citizens’ means of reacting …
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BIRTHPARENTS’ IDENTIFIED NEEDS FOR PRE AND POST ADOPTION SERVICES: IMPACT ON THEIR MENTAL HEALTH
… of this quantitative research project was to examine what services birthparents identified as needed prior to the adoption and post-adoption, what mental health issues and symptoms they are facing, and what the impact of adoption is on birthparents. Data were gathered through an online …
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FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
… deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these models, potential systemic flaws have not been fully addressed, particularly the potential for …
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