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Poor access to primary care results in poorer health for deaf people.»
Not exact matches
Mokdad said increasing
access to primary care, such as general practitioners and physician assistants, would help identify patients» early warning signs of
poor health.
In health
care and energy, for example, the private sector holds the key technologies but the public sector is needed
to finance research and development,
to regulate sustainable practices (for example, for emissions reduction and
primary health standards), and
to ensure
access for the
poor.
Guinea worm disease afflicts the
poorest of the
poor, those living in areas with
poor sanitation and minimal
access to primary health
care.
These advances have had limited impact on community
care, with current data indicating high unmet need28 - 30 and
poorer quality and outcomes for community treatment compared with efficacy studies.31, 32 We address these gaps by evaluating a quality improvement intervention aimed at improving
access to evidence - based treatments for depression (particularly CBT and antidepressant medication) in
primary care settings.
This poses serious problems for indigenous populations because of already
poor access to primary health
care.
policy and funding support
to provide additional ACCHSs in both regional and metropolitan areas, where there are currently large populations with
poor access to comprehensive
primary health
care;
This can be explained by a number of factors, such as less effective treatment and
poor clinical decisions, but a principal cause is the lack of regular
access to primary health
care.
This will further disadvantage Aboriginal peoples, who on average have lower incomes and
poorer health status, lower levels of
access to primary health
care and
poorer health outcomes once they enter the health system, than non-Indigenous Australians.
Aboriginal people have the
poorest access to primary health
care, shown by their high rate of potentially preventable hospitalisations.
The interrelation between disadvantage,
poor health, low rates of
primary care, and greater use of emergency facilities is found even within universal
access health
care systems, suggesting that factors in addition
to financial affordability impact children's health
care.
The causes of chronic conditions are believed
to include:
poor foetal and child health;
poor diet throughout the lifecycle; smoking and alcohol misuse; a lack of
access to primary health
care (which is important in the detection and early prevention of chronic conditions); and social stress.
For example, given that Indigenous peoples»
poorer health status would indicate a greater need for
primary health
care services, it is disturbing that in 2004 it was estimated that Indigenous peoples enjoyed 40 % of the per capita
access of the non-Indigenous population
to primary health
care provided by mainstream general practitioners.
This highlighted
poorer Indigenous health and the need for an address
to Indigenous peoples»
access to primary health
care as a priority.