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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"access to health"”.
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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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“You belong to everyone” : urban First Nations access to health services
The health status of Indigenous peoples in what is now known as Canada is a manifestation of its colonial systems. Legislation that defines Indigeneity, land base, resource allocation, and access to health supports perpetuate illness of Indigenous peoples in Canada. Despite efforts to reconcile …
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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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Concepts of proportionality in investment protection of patents and access to health resources
This thesis seeks to demonstrate why investment protection of patented health resources is disproportionate and how the disproportionate power can be mitigated. The argument asserts that the protection of patented health resources under international investment agreements (“IIAs”) goes beyond the …
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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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Access to Nature, Access to Health: The Government Free Bathhouse at Hot Springs National Park, 1877 to 1922
Scholars of environmental history have written extensively about the role of federal control of public lands. In the past few decades, others have begun to explore connections between the natural environment and health. Largely overlooked, however, is the ways these ideas have merged. This essay …
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Open source geographic information systems: promoting access to health services information through a local and participatory development methodology
The challenges associated with the provision of health services in South Africa are immense. The South African Government aims to address some of these challenges through the decentralisation of health services management. Information sharing and dissemination is seen as a critical factor in the …
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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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The Attitude of Police Force in Facilitating Access to Health Services to People who use Narcotic Drugs in Tanzania
The study aimed to examine the role of police force in facilitating access the health services to people who use Narcotic drugs in Tanzania. Specifically, the study aimed to identify health related services available to drug abusers in Tanzania, examine the attitude of Police towards people who …
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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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Health and wellbeing geographies of female domestic workers: Understanding space-time constraints and access to health-promoting places and social networks
… under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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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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