Sentences with phrase «difficulty accessing health services»

Areas with the worst health outcomes tend to have worse social and economic indicators and greatest difficulty accessing health services.

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These include people who have difficulty maintaining good oral health or accessing oral health services because of medical, physical, social, economic or geographic conditions.

Many have difficulty accessing mental health services and other services when they leave these institutions.

People with multiple needs — such as those in need of housing, drug and alcohol, mental health and disability services — «can face particularly high barriers to access» and these barriers «are often made even higher by difficulties navigating a complicated system of service delivery».

[93] These trials recognise difficulties many Indigenous communities face in accessing mainstream health services, with contributions to the pooling fund made on the basis of an estimate of the amount that would otherwise have been made available to the community through the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS), Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS), State health services and Home and Community Care (HACC) services.

This helps children and families gain faster access to service providers that can assist with mental health difficulties.

«During the settlement process, refugees share the difficulties associated with adjusting to a new and very different culture, the limited access to information, the disruption of their lives and the schooling of their children, the issues of poor health and difficulty in accessing appropriate and affordable housing, the pressure of adjusting to a new environment, the difficulties in entering the employment market and the relative lack of understanding of their communities by Australian service providers.

Seeking help involves talking about a child's mental health difficulties with health professionals or other relevant support services, such as general practitioners (GPs), to access support and advice.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.

Mental health difficulties have been linked to social inequalities, including deprivation and poverty (Murali & Oyebode, 2004), however, participants in the research and their partners have access to support services through the National Health Service, and other voluntary sector services, factors specific to the location in which this research has been condhealth difficulties have been linked to social inequalities, including deprivation and poverty (Murali & Oyebode, 2004), however, participants in the research and their partners have access to support services through the National Health Service, and other voluntary sector services, factors specific to the location in which this research has been condHealth Service, and other voluntary sector services, factors specific to the location in which this research has been conducted.