DisparitySpatial accessGISHealthThis paper reports a study examining the association between colorectal cancer (CRC) survival and access to healthcare in Texas using data from the Texas cancer registry. We geo-referenced the data to the census tract level and used an enhanced 2-step floating ...
Results showed that older adults with disabilities exhibit disparity when accessing healthcare services compared with older adults without disabilities. Implications for public healthcare professionals, rehabilitation professionals, and policy makers are discussed.doi:10.1097/01.TGR.0000333753.9...
Beyond the Call of Duty: Paramedics Caring for the Disparity of Access to HealthcareDonovan, WilliamApha
Despite and indeed potentially as a direct result of, this disparity, the issue of healthcare in the United States has become a progressively more contentious issue over the past 30 years. In this paper, I describe why access to healthcare ought to be guaranteed as a right by arguments of...
- 《International Journal of Health Planning & Management》 被引量: 80发表: 2011年 Whole-person care: from rhetoric to reality. Achieving parity between mental and physical health. The report presents evidence on a range of factors affecting disparity between mental and physical health, and ...
Access to healthcare is underpinned in large part on a health consumer’s access to information about available health care services, their location, price, and if the patient is very fortunate to glean, quality. As people take on more responsibility for
Using a simple epidemic model of a population divided into two groups that differ in their recovery rates due to different levels of access to healthcare, we find that both the basic reproductive number (Ro) of the disease and its endemic prevalence are increasing functions of the disparity ...
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Using a cross-national comparative approach, we examined the influence of health insurance on U.S. immigrant versus non-immigrant disparities in access to primary health care. With data from the 2002/2003 Joint Canada/United States Survey of Health, we gathered evidence using three approaches: 1...
healthcare systems, uneven distribution of resources and services, costs). Furthermore, socio-economically disadvantageous cancer patients in LMICs, and their families, are at risk of impoverishment due to catastrophic out-of-pocket healthcare costs and lost productivity3, forcing them to divert ...