Immigrants to the United States of America (USA) generally have difficulty adjusting to and accessing healthcare in their host environment. This study aimed at finding out the barriers to accessing healthcare among immigrants from Cameroon in a large metropolitan region on the East Coast of the ...
Medical School for International Health, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel;Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel;elsevierPublic HealthDouthit N, Kiv S, Dwolatzky T, Biswas S. 2015. Exposing some important barriers to health care access in the rural USA. Public Health. 2015 Jun;...
Objective: We used community-based participatory research (CBPR) to explore barriers to healthcare access and utilization and identify potentially effective intervention strategies to increase access among members of the Korean community in North Carolina (NC). Methods: Our CBPR partnership conducted 8...
Socioeconomic factors such as insurance eligibility, education, income, marital status, and access to technology can deeply impact the diagnosis and long-term treatment of glaucoma patients. Depending on the severity, and/or urgency of care, many individuals who face these barriers forgo annual eye ...
2006). The unique medical, developmental, and behavioral supports needed for this population make it an important group to examine in regard to health care access and quality. A significant amount of recent literature has focused on the identification of disparities with regard to health care ...
The BASIC-HHD study is designed to assemble pivotal information on dialysis modality choice and uptake, investigating users, care-givers and care delivery processes and study their variation in a multi-layered analytical approach within a single health care system. The study results would define modal...
Aim: Adolescents in the juvenile justice system are particularly susceptible to high rates of co-occurring health-risk behaviors, while at the same time lacking access to the healthcare system. Methods: A verbal questionnaire was administered from Decemb
To improve access to healthcare services for people with tic disorders, it is important to evaluate the experiences of this population when trying to access healthcare for tics, and to understand the knowledge and understanding of tics among healthcare practitioners considering any barriers or facilit...
Health service utilization and the presence of financial and nonfinancial barriers to care in the preceding 12 months. Key Results There were 24,905 individuals included in the analysis, representing approximately 230 million US adults. The weighted prevalence of those with a history of PCC was 6.9...
Sex workers face many barriers to accessing the inalienable human right of mental health. The aim of this review was to synthesize the evidence on the barriers to mental healthcare for sex workers and the factors that facilitate uptake. Methods A search conducted in 2018 of peer-reviewed and ...