However, there has been limited research formally assessing mental health symptoms as potential barriers to accessing health care in SCD. Objective: To investigate the relation between mental health symptoms, quality of life and reported barriers to accessing healthcare. We hypothesized that 1) mental...
A robust understanding of barriers to accessing healthcare across the lifespan of autistic individuals is critical to ensuring the best use of healthcare resources to improve social, physical, and mental health outcomes. Stakeholders must strengthen healthcare service provision by coming together to: ...
In the Czech Republic, a systemic solution to the issue of homelessness is still missing [5], and oppression as a barrier to accessing health care services is given little attention. This is related to the fact that a structural grasp of the topic of homelessness and exclusion from housing...
The outcome variable, barriers to accessing health care, were asked about in terms of whether the respondent faced barriers to getting permission to go, getting money to go, the distance to the health facility, and not wanting to go alone. The variables were recoded into zero, one, and ...
Accessibility of health care is an essential for promoting healthy life, preventing diseases and deaths, and enhancing health equity for all. Barriers in accessing health care among reproductive-age women creates the first and the third delay for maternal mortality and leads to the occurrence of pre...
The barriers to accessing primary health services are more significant. For example, post-migration living difficulties can significantly increase immigrants’ risk of post-traumatic stress disorder [54]. When implementing mental health interventions for refugees and asylum seekers in LMICs, primary care ...
Access to health care for people living in rural areas presents many challenges. For people who live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the ability to access specialist health services facilitates improved health outcomes, however many barriers to accessing specialist health care have be...
Therefore, understanding access and barriers to mental health care during this sensitive developmental period is of particular importance. Understanding the mental health needs for children in Africa could help overcome potential barriers to accessing mental health services, as well as increase our ...
These women may face challenges accessing health services. This study focused on examining barriers to health care access among female Ugandan sex workers in China. In 2014, we undertook in-depth interviews with 19 female Ugandan sex workers in Guangzhou, China. Interviews focused on barriers to ...
These multiple-diagnosed women are known to have special problems and barriers to accessing health care. The service delivery model is based on “hyperlinking” women into hard-to-get health care appointment slots through nurses' personal contacts in health care clinics. The intervention model is ...