Sentences with phrase «access to primary health care»

This is part of his broader interest in the public health concept of equity — fair access to primary health care for everyone.

This is part of his broader interest in the public health concept of equity — fair access to primary health care for everyone.

This poses serious problems for indigenous populations because of already poor access to primary health care.

These gains can be made as a result of a greater focus on increasing access to primary health care services that will enable these conditions to be detected, treated and managed.

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.

To improve the quality of life and promote general survival of the people, by creating access to primary health care.

What are the barriers to ensuring equitable access to primary health care in communities?

This is part of his broader interest in the public health concept of equity — fair access to primary health care for everyone.

This is part of his broader interest in the public health concept of equity — fair access to primary health care for everyone.

2) Governments of Australia commit to achieving equality of access to primary health care and to an equal standard of health infrastructure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within 10 years.

Through these programs, the Commonwealth Government facilitates the general populations» access to primary health care as provided by general practitioners and other private health services.

Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling

Guinea worm disease afflicts the poorest of the poor, those living in areas with poor sanitation and minimal access to primary health care.

If members of the Government were truly committed to closing the gap on Indigenous disadvantage they would do all they could to improve access to primary health care since this would help to deal with the challenges related to cancer rather than intensify them.

Is access to primary health care equitable?

Anything that reduces access to primary health care is counterproductive and contradicts the bipartisan commitment to Closing the Gap in Indigenous life expectancy.

It proposes a campaign for health inequality with two main sets of targets - equal enjoyment of health infrastructure and universal access to primary health care within 10 years; and equalisation in life expectancy within 25 years.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, lower income families in Canada had less access to primary health care (which was not covered by universal health insurance at that time) than more affluent families.

The Close the Gap Campaign is urging the Federal Government to focus on greater access to primary health care services to detect, treat and manage chronic health conditions in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Indigenous Australians die from preventable diseases such as rheumatic heart disease, eradicated among the rest of the Australian population and they have lower access to primary health care and health infrastructure that the rest of Australia takes for granted.

A particular problem facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities is the relative lack of access to primary health care.

These barriers to effective cancer care are made worse by the high rates of co-morbidities that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience, and these too require regular access to primary health care.

This is part of his broader interest in the public health concept of equity — fair access to primary health care for everyone.

The campaign calls on governments to put in place firm targets, funding and timeframes to address health inequalities, including providing equal access to primary health care for Indigenous Australians within 10 years.

For a Prime Minister who has made endless comments about his commitment to improving Indigenous health and wellbeing, as well as saying that he'd spend his first week in office visiting a remote Aboriginal community and then surrounding himself with carefully chosen Aboriginal advisors, it's beyond belief that he would see any wisdom in implementing measures that will severely restrict people's access to primary health care.

For eligible individuals, the AOT program provides a 24 - hour team response that includes mental health treatment, medication, access to primary health care, substance abuse counseling, benefits and resource counseling, supportive housing, vocational rehabilitation, and peer and family member education and support.

The report sets out sub-targets of ensuring equal access to primary health care and health infrastructure within ten years.

Health costs are already a significant barrier to Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander peoples» 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.

Governments should commit to achieving equal access to primary health care and health infrastructure (including safe drinking water, effective sewerage systems, rubbish collection services and healthy housing) within 10 years for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

All MLH in Los Angeles have access to primary health care, specialized HIV care, antiretroviral (ARV) medications, and reimbursement for transportation.

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.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples do not enjoy equal access to primary health care and health infrastructure which includes safe drinking water, effective sewerage systems, rubbish collection services and healthy housing.

Access to primary health care It is estimated that in 2004, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples enjoyed 40 % of the per capita access of the non-Indigenous population to primary health care provided by general practitioners.1

The governments of Australia to commit to achieving equality of access to primary health care and health infrastructure within 10 years for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;

10 years to achieve equality of opportunity in relation to access to primary health care and in relation to infrastructure that supports health (such as housing, food supplies, water, and etc.).

They do not enjoy equal access to primary health care and health infrastructure, which includes: safe drinking water, supplies of healthy food, effective sewerage systems, rubbish collection services and healthy housing.