Health Services Accessibility - Trends
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Friday, March 12, 2010

Microbicides development programme: engaging the community in the standard of care debate in a vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania.

7 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: HIV prevention research in resource-limited countries is associated with a variety of ethical dilemmas. Key amongst these is the question of what constitutes an appropriate standard of health care (SoC) for participants in HIV prevention ... Read more...

[Out-of-pocket health care expenditures among population groups in Iceland]

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: Out-of-pocket health expenditures affect access to health care. The study investigated trends in these expenditures, and whether certain population groups spent more than others. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The data come from two national ... Read more...

Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study.

Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To determine whether observable changes in waiting times occurred for certain key elective procedures between 1997 and 2007 in the English National Health Service and to analyse the distribution of those changes between socioeconomic ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Services Accessibility - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Where has carotid stenting gone? 7 Oct 2009
• Microbicides development programme: engaging the community in the standard of care debate in a vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania. 7 Oct 2009
• [Out-of-pocket health care expenditures among population groups in Iceland] 29 Sep 2009
• Proposed FDA rules on painkillers in U.S. Rile cancer community. 29 Sep 2009
• Canadian health care: a question of access. 29 Sep 2009
• Equity, waiting times, and NHS reforms: retrospective study. Sep 2009
• Perspectives of intellectual disability in Asia: epidemiology, policy, and services for children and adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Perspectives of intellectual disability in Africa: epidemiology and policy services for children and adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Perspectives of intellectual disability in Latin American countries: epidemiology, policy, and services for children and adults. 30 Aug 2009
• Improvements in access to care for vulnerable children in California between 2001 and 2005. 30 Aug 2009
• Income-related inequalities and inequities in Irish healthcare utilization. 30 Jul 2009
• Medicare Part D update--lessons learned and unfinished business. 21 Jul 2009
• Selegiline shortage: Causes and costs of a generic drug shortage. 19 Jul 2009
• [Committed to the health of the population--the public health service] 29 Jun 2009
• [Public health genomics. The future is built today!] 29 Jun 2009
• [gesundheitsziele.de. Results of criteria analysis to select a new health target in Germany] 29 Jun 2009
• Return of the radionuclide shortage. 29 Jun 2009
• Trends and economic stress: a challenge to universal access to antiretroviral treatment in India. 29 Jun 2009
• Epilepsy services: time to put plans into action. 29 Jun 2009
• Fifteen years after the International Conference on Population and Development: What have we achieved and how do we move forward? 19 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Health Services Accessibility'

Definition: The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.

Descriptor UI: D006297

Alternative terms: Health Services Accessibility; Accessibility, Health Services; Access to Health Care; Availability of Health Services; Health Services Availability; Accessibility of Health Services; Program Accessibility; Accessibility, Program; Locale; Locales; Contraceptive Availability; Availability, Contraceptive; Distance; Distances;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.590.374.350; N05.300.430;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: specify geog; DF: HEALTH SERV ACCESS