To meet the Sustainable Development Goals and ensure social justice, the South African government should ensure the provision of adequate, quality and accessible health care to all people in the country, including those in rural areas. ETHICS APPROVAL AND CONSENT TO PARTICIPATE Permission to conduct ...
Care servicesUniversal coverageAccessibleSchizoaffective disorderThe objectives of the study were to identify barriers that impede access to mental health services and formulate informed targeted interventions and policies to enhance service delivery and utilization.A qualitative study was conducted employing ...
A facilitator has been defined as an “external factor” that made access to health care easier (Heaman et al., 2014, pg. 4). Facilitators can be structural, programmatic, or informal: examples include transit-accessible health care sites, free or subsidized transportation services, or rides ...
SCD is concerned with the improvement of the oral health of individuals and groups in the society who have physical, sensory, intellectual, mental, medical, emotional or social impairment or disability. The importance of SCD as well as the barriers to oral health and the ways in reducing such...
A specific focus should be on providing easily accessible information for those with lower health literacy, low educational level and ethnic minority groups. Our study shows that sociodemographic characteristics, medical characteristics, and PCC symptom severity should be taken into account when addressing...
In this way, social isolation can have detrimental effects on the physical and mental health of older people, exacerbating the difference in access to health services. It is critical to implement measures that address social isolation, such as community support programs and accessible transportation ...
Data were only accessible to the study team. Consent for publication Not applicable. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Author details 1Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda. 2...
In East Africa, women face significant challenges accessing maternal healthcare during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period. While several studies have examined barriers and facilitators to maternal care, there is no comprehensive review refle
Accessible health services mean that youth are able to obtain health services that are available [8]. Sixteen studies (Table 5) discussed accessibility of services, and among them, 12 identified accessibility as a barrier. Among the accessibility barriers most frequently mentioned were those related ...
experiencing homelessness are less able to afford transportation to clinics or hospitals, which is especially problematic in a city as large as Calgary. There are currently few resources available to assist individuals with transportation to and from clinics that are not located in easily accessible ...