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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"health access"”.
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Oral Health Access and Inequities in Rural Regions
… interpreting data from the Canadian Community Health Survey. A scoping review across three high-income countries was also undertaken to determine which interventions are most efficient in closing the gaps in dental utilization previously identified in the CCHS data analysis and identify …
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Improving behavioral health access and engagement in post-stroke depression support among adult stroke survivors
… outcomes, reduced quality of life, increased healthcare utilization, and elevated suicide risk. At Trinity Health in Muskegon, MI, routine inpatient assessment utilized the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), which captures suicidality but does not assess a broader range of …
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Physician and Patient Satisfaction With Charity Care: The Case of Health Access Network in Utah
… play a significant role in providing health care to low-income, uninsured individuals. This deep-rooted tradition of charity care is consistent with the libertarian values that underlie the United States’ for-profit, capitalist health care system. Anthropological research is …
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Empowering Reproductive Health & Access to Enhance College Student Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Community Engaged Proposal
… to the need for the expansion of reproductive health services in institutions of higher education. College-age young adults in the age group of 18 to 24 are particularly vulnerable to unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and participate in risky behaviors such as alcohol …
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Addressing Rural Health Access Inequity by Assessing Potential and Organizational Readiness for Antifragile Electronic Health Project Design in Rural Communities
There is a rural health access equity gap within Canadian and international universal healthcare systems. Electronic health (eHealth) interventions can address that gap, but intervention pilot projects rarely scale to other contexts, or sustain in their original settings. Antifragile design and …
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Policy Brief On Diversity And Underutilization Of Nurse Practitioners: An Illinois Example
<p>Health Disparities among racial minorities cost the economy $309 billion annually (Kaiser Foundation, 2012). A component of healthcare disparities deals with lack of access to primary care providers and lack of diversity within the provider workforce. Nurse practitioners as a group of primary …
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Addressing Health Disparities in Refugees
… lives in new countries by providing support in health care, finance, education, infrastructure, and resettlement.</p> <p>I worked as a Health Access/Intensive Case management Intern. As a Health Access Program Intern, it was my job to ensure that refugees coming to the United States had a place …
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Health Care Utilization among Bhutanese Refugees in Philadelphia: Exploring Vulnerabilities, Access, and Needs
… a major global concern. This study examines health care utilization among Bhutanese refugees in one U.S. city during the post-resettlement period. Using grounded theory methods, this study explores individual- and structural-level factors that affect health access and health services usage …
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Aggravating Factors, Migraine Severity, and Healthcare Access among UK South Asians: A Systematic Review
… Cultural stigma, language barriers, limited health literacy, and structural inequalities in healthcare access contribute to disparities in diagnosis and treatment for this population. Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted using databases such as PubMed, EBSCOhost, …
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Examining the Role of Intersectionality with Risk and Protective Factors in Suicidal Ideation: Insights from the 2022- 2023 California Health Kids Survey
… an intersecting lens. The 2022 – 2023 California Healthy Kids Survey, and accompanying Mental Health Supports Module and Trauma Module, were used to identify both risk and protective factors for suicidal ideation. A series of binary logistic regression models were conducted to predict the …
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Promoting Mental Health Awareness And Reducing Stigma In Spanish-Speaking Communities Through Educational Interventions
… experience significant disparities in mental health access driven by language barriers, low mental health literacy, and cultural stigma. These factors contribute to the underutilization of services, early treatment dropout, and poor outcomes. </p> <p>Objective: This quality improvement project …
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Evaluation of Valley Healthcare System Inc. School-Based Health Clinic/Center at Dorothy I. Heights Elementary School in Columbus, Georgia
<p>School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are an important strategy for addressing health disparities and improving educational outcomes among underserved students. In Columbus, Georgia, barriers such as limited insurance, transportation challenges, and provider shortages contribute to unmet health …
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Qualidade dos serviços de saúde: uma análise das Unidades Básicas de Saúde em municípios paraibanos de pequeno porte com base na avaliação externa do 1º ciclo PMAQ-AB
… Care is the gateway to individual and collective health services as prevention, promotion and diagnosis through the Basic Health Units (UBS), installed next to the population, ensuring health access with quality. So this work arose with the question of how are the working conditions of the units, …
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The fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa - the perceptions of men who have sex with men: about HIV/AIDS-related healthcare policies, services, and interventions targeting them
… disproportionate levels of marginalisation, poor health access and HIV-disease in nearly every nation where reliable data is available. Much of what is known about medical and civil society-based research in South Africa on HIV/AIDS has mainly been on heterosexual or vertical transmission. …
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Exploring Collaboration between Regional Planning and Public Health in Southwest Virginia
… between regional planning and public health promises project cost sharing while achieving the missions of the respective organizations. The objective of this research is to apply the theoretical framework of critical contingencies to assess the current level of inter-organizational …
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Racial Identity Within the Indo-Caribbean Community: A Proposed Model
… the Indo-Caribbean experience of mental health access in the Caribbean is limited due to improper collection and reporting of demographic information. Indo-Caribbeans who were raised from a young age or born outside of the Caribbean community region, often experience discrimination and a …
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The Relationship Between Religiosity and Tobacco Use in a Mexican Spanish Speaking Sample in the United States
<p>To address disparities in minority mental health access and treatment, this study examined the relationship between tobacco use and religiosity, focusing on a Mexican Spanish speaking sample. Based on past research, it was hypothesized that religiosity would act as a protective factor against …
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Getting to the Doctor: BPSS Factors of Health Care Utilization in Fragile Families
… likely to live in poverty and experience poorer health, face significant barriers to access and utilize health care services (De Marco & De Marco, 2009; Williams, 2008). Limited research exists on how these facets of the illness experience might differ for fragile families whose resources are …
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Access to Care and the Use of Healthcare Services by Women in Rural Cameroon: A Participatory Action Research Study
<p>Women in rural Cameroon do not access health care as timeously and as often as they should. They fail to get screened for common diseases, with the consequence that such diseases are often diagnosed at a very advanced stage. This accounts for the high morbidity and mortality rates as well as low …
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The use and disaggregation of survey data to study the cross-sectional and spatial distribution of multimorbidity and its association with socioeconomic disadvantage in South Africa
… of the use and disaggregation of existing health data in order to study the cross-sectional and spatial distribution of HIV, tuberculosis and noncommunicable disease multimorbidity and the association with socioeconomic disadvantage at a South African, Western Cape Province and …
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