Measuring geographic access to health care: raster and network-based methods. Int J Health Geogr. 2012; 11(1): 15.Delamater PL, Messina JP, Shortridge AM, Grady SC: Measuring geographic access to health care: raster and network-based methods. International Journal of Health Geographics 2012, ...
The inequity in accessibility to healthcare services and their distribution for urban and rural populations are always major challenges for health planners and policy makers. The present study focuses on challenges associated with estimating the geographical scope of access to health services in rural an...
Measuring disparities in health care: The gap between high and low quality care within groups matters more than gaps between groups PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) provides free access to a stable and permanent online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed health and life scienc... JP...
have beenselected.Theseexamplesare: Adequatesupplyofsafewaterandbasicsanitation (socialdeterminantsofhealth) Maternalandchildhealth Controloflocalendemicdiseases(e.g.TB&HIV) Equity(inresourceallocation) AlmaAtaandPrimaryHealthCare TheSocialDeterminantsofHealth %HouseholdswithaccesstopipedwaterinSA 200184.5% ...
Regional differences in health care delivery: implications for a national resource allocation formula In several countries formulae for allocating resources to regions are derived using national average relationships between population characteristics and h... M Sutton,P Lock - 《Health Economics》 被引量...
They advocate the use of state-of-the-art measures even if they are costly and mention that quality of care should be assessed at several levels, including care provided by individual health care professionals and health plans. The selection of data sources and congruity of assessment measures ...
However, in East Africa, only three factors were relevant: attitudes toward violence, access to healthcare ranking, and labor force participation. There was limited evidence to support household decision-making, life course, or legal status domains as components of women's empowerment. Conclusion:...
Under a Creative Commons license open accessAbstract Background The Institute of Medicine considers patient centeredness a core dimension of quality. Several patient/family surveys exist to assess pediatric health care. The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act mandates strengthening quality...
While advanced methods for quantifying geographical access to healthcare services are widely available, these methods have not been applied in the current literature to explore the potential access to mental health services by Indigenous populations. This is partially due to limited understanding of how...
Our agency, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), leads the production of the report and its companion report, the National Healthcare Quality Report, which focuses on quality of care. Together, the reports track about 250 measures of health care quality and access to provide...