Sentences with phrase «healthcare access barriers»

The study did not ascribe a specific cause for the racial disparities but offered six possible explanations: conscious or unconscious provider biases; patient mistrust; health literacy; patient - physician communication breakdown; healthcare access barriers; and / or race - based differences in disease biology.

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Therapeutic itineraries can help pinpoint the weak joints in a given healthcare system, the barriers and bottlenecks that delay care or limit access to it.

«Focusing on infant feeding support kits detracts from the real barriers to breastfeeding such as access to healthcare after leaving the hospital, breastfeeding support in the workplace and paid or longer maternity leave,» said Mountford.

«From improving access to healthcare treatments and services, to removing barriers to employment, all five of these bills take important steps to ensure that veterans have every opportunity to continue succeeding when they return home.»

It examines problems with access to healthcare and burden of illness, and it found that although patients with Lyme disease suffered a substantial burden of illness, they had significant barriers to healthcare access.

ACJF is guided by a vision of a strong state where there are no barriers to access to justice, adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, and the opportunity to work and earn a living.

With the Act, our nation's healthcare policy aims to protect, promote and restore the physical and mental well - being of residents of Canada and to facilitate reasonable access to health services without financial or other barriers.

And that training of new professionals must go hand - in - hand with testing our methods of intervention, in ways that MFTs can reach out to the millions of people who continue to experience access barriers to high - quality mental healthcare.

Data will be collected using a 45 - item, multidimensional, self - administered instrument, designed to measure healthcare need, barriers to healthcare access and health service utilisation, attitudes, experiences and satisfaction.

Qualitative evidence indicated an increase in access related to ICDP activities such as the removal of cost barriers to medicines; removal of transport barriers to attend services; improved cultural safety in general practices; support and assistance from ICDP workforce for Indigenous people to access healthcare services; and more community programmes / resources to support healthy lifestyle choices and health - seeking behaviours.

A series of fact sheets prepared as part of the submission note that «overcrowding, poor conditions and substandard healthcare characterise Australian prisons», and that «there is significant under - funding of the legal system and systematic barriers to accessing justice, particularly for vulnerable and disadvantaged people».

This major government - funded package of interventions has had some success in overcoming barriers to accessing healthcare by supplying services that are more approachable, acceptable and affordable for Indigenous Australians.

Minority groups around the world experience profound barriers to accessing healthcare, 1 including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia (respectfully referred to hereafter as Indigenous Australians).

Barriers to access identified in our analysis are consistent with research on barriers to healthcare for Indigenous Australians.5, 18, 21, 27 Key emerging challenges include achieving general population coverage and reaching high - needBarriers to access identified in our analysis are consistent with research on barriers to healthcare for Indigenous Australians.5, 18, 21, 27 Key emerging challenges include achieving general population coverage and reaching high - needbarriers to healthcare for Indigenous Australians.5, 18, 21, 27 Key emerging challenges include achieving general population coverage and reaching high - need groups.

Leischow said the presentation that really struck him was by Darren Clinch, from the Department of Health and Human Services, on mapping access to healthcare services through geospatial visualisation of barriers and enablers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Sites faced significant barriers in accessing administrative data maintained by other agencies, like healthcare and child welfare.

Maternal Mental Health NOW partners with healthcare facilities in order to address these barriers and increase access to depression screening and treatment services for medically underserved pregnant and postpartum women.

These inequities are rooted not only in historical and contemporary colonialism, colonial policies and legislation, but are also perpetuated by unique barriers to accessing healthcare.

Both antisocial groups reported barriers to healthcare access.