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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"health care access"”.
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Health Care Access and Utilization by U.S. Farmworkers
… injury, illness, and mortality, yet have limited access to health care. Implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 increased health care accessibility and broadened farmworker eligibility for health insurance, yet no study has measured the impact of the ACA upon …
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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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Health care access of Hispanic immigrants in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area
… 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 school and …
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Mental health care access and utilization across sexual and racial-ethnic identity
… under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Health Care Access by Immigrant Women--A Comparison of California, Florida and New York
… women in the U.S. are generally in poorer health than U.S.-born women and immigrant men , and many immigrant women encounter some difficulties in obtaining health care assistance, such as health insurance. Yet American researchers are only beginning to make a contribution to this area of …
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Out-of-pocket payments, health care access and utilisation in South-Eastern Nigeria : a gender perspective
… (OOP) payments have severe consequences for health care access and utilisation and are especially catastrophic for the poor. Although women comprise the majority of the poor in Nigeria and globally, the implications of OOP payments for health care access from a gender perspective have …
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Barriers and facilitators to health care access for children in a low-income are in Cape Town
… are out of hospital. We investigated barriers to accessing health care for children in the False Bay Hospital drainage area. Methods Quantitative and qualitative methods were used: community survey (n=62), qualitative interviews (n=11) with caregivers of children who presented critically ill or …
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Is lower socio-economic status associated with more impaired health care access and poorer quality of life in patients with COPD? What is the role of psychosocial factors in this relationship?
… Socioeconomic deprivation is a determinant of health care access and quality of life in many diseases. The current study explored this effect in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and examined the role of psychosocial variables in this relationship.Aims: The primary aim of this thesis …
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Access to Health Care at the Margins: Implications for Older Sexual Minority Women with Disabilities
… (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 therefore an important component of advancing health equity among marginalized populations, …
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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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Subjective social status and its associations with social vulnerabilities and health
… position in this hierarchy. SSS may influence health through behavioral and psychosocial mechanisms. METHODS: We conducted three sub-studies to examine whether SSS affects risk of and outcomes in chronic disease, and to explore the role of health care access and experience of social …
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Health care experiences of low-income South Indian women: using social relationships to negotiate physical, financial and informational constraints
… pledged significant resources toward improving health care access for underprivileged citizens. Maternal well-being is a highlight of the government’s health care initiatives, especially in the state of Tamil Nadu where health care innovations and maternity assistance benefits for low-income …
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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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Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Global South
… the United States, an uneven global gradient of health care access, and changing health demographics in the Global South---have prompted the development of an extensive international infrastructure for conducting clinical trials. This infrastructure is not only technical and physical, but also …
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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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Understanding African Immigrant Health in the United States: An Exploratory Study of the Nigerian Immigrant Healthcare Experience
… States, there is very little knowledge about the health of African immigrants. Although their population exceeds 2 million and still on the rise exponentially, a big gap exists regarding knowledge about health care access and outcomes for this population. Before relocating to the US, many African …
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Demonstrating Long-Term Primary Care Need For Medically Vulnerable Populations Post-Disaster
<p> Introduction: Environmental Public Health Disasters (EPHD) generate increased demand for primary care services after initial surge (i.e., "secondary surges") that overwhelm the local health system. There is a current gap in the literature examining a disaster's impact on long-term health care …
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ADDRESSING DIABETES IN THE UNDERSERVED POPULATION USING A COMMUNITY OUTREACH MOBILE UNIT APPROACH
Social determinants of health (SDOH) affect quality-of-life outcomes and risks. In underserved populations, health care access and quality are often poor. Mainstream bioethics has highlighted the importance of equity in the delivery of healthcare with a focus on the community's health disparities …
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Access to Care and the Impact of Inequality Among Individuals with a History of Mental Illness
… between experiences of oppression and self-rated health among a cross-section of 293 community dwelling participants with a mental illness. Binary logistic regression was used to estimate the association between self-rated health and social identity (gender, ethnicity, education, homelessness, …
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