Australian autistic adults face substantial barriers to healthcare. Understanding these barriers provides an opportunity to develop approaches to improve access; such as co-designing a healthcare access roadmap for autistic adults, with co-designed policies and practices which advocate for ...
Hospitalized respondents were less likely to report barriers related to availability of care, but not less likely to report financial or help-seeking barriers. Conclusions This study shows that the majority of patients with PCC experiences barriers to healthcare access. Particular attention should be ...
Clients generally have low self-esteem and do not perceive they are entitled to health care because, in some cases, they feel their health problems are a result of their actions. Once clients' selfesteem has improved and they have the energy to keep appointments, nurses use their hyperlinking...
The U.S. health care system is deteriorating in terms of decreasing access, increased costs, unacceptable quality, and poor system performance compared with health care systems in many other industrialized Western countries. Reform efforts to establish universal insurance coverage have been defeated on ...
"The message here is that health insurance is a necessary part of the solution, but it doesn't eliminate all barriers to health care for people experiencing homelessness," said the study's author, Dr. Stephen Hwang of the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St. Michael's Hospital...
HEALTHCARE ACCESS: A REVIEW OF MAJOR BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR WOMEN.The article discusses health law through an analysis of the legal standards governing health care access and publicly-funded abortions and the profound impact that our current legal standards have on low-income women. ...
Despite recent attempts by foreign governments and NGOs, the burden has largely been placed on the Vietnamese government to provide access to medical care for individuals affected. In order to examine recent interventions and barriers to healthcare for those affected we sampled 350 households, ...
The objective is to assess the barriers to health care encountered by people with disabilities who are fully covered for their health care, so that they have no financial barriers. The population consists of 40 very poor persons with mental disorders, intellectual disabilities, alcohol or drug prob...
Long travel times to health care providers and long waiting times at hospitals or clinics are often considered barriers to access care. Such barriers are the main underlying reasons for missing appointments, postponing seeking care, and dropping out of care that could eventually delay treatment and ...
The authors provide an overview of the homeless population, outline the barriers to health care for persons who are homeless, and highlight the major health care needs of this population. Finally, a community-based service delivery system developed by one agency in responding to the need of ...