Sentences with phrase «improve 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.

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In «The Case of the Vanishing Quebec Physicians: How to Improve Access to Care,» author Claude E. Forget, former Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services, calls for primary care reforms that focus on providing more care in communities and clinics, rather than in hospitCare,» author Claude E. Forget, former Quebec Minister of Health and Social Services, calls for primary care reforms that focus on providing more care in communities and clinics, rather than in hospitcare reforms that focus on providing more care in communities and clinics, rather than in hospitcare in communities and clinics, rather than in hospitals.

These included distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to reduce inequalities; lay health workers and training of traditional birth attendants to increase participation in health by consumers; contracting out of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, reminders and recall for immunisation; working with for - profit providers to increase the effectiveness of care; subcontracting the delivery of health services, integrating primary healthcare services, addressing the distribution of health workers, specialist outreach clinics, substitution of doctors by nurses, lay health workers, and training of traditional birth attendants to increase coverage or access; and outpatient referrals to improve the coordination of care.

He unveiled a two - pronged approach to narrowing the health gap; by improving access to primary care and focusing on prevention as much as treatment.

Getso said that over the last two years, the state government had renovated more than 300 primary and secondary health care facilities in Kano, with a view to improving access and quality of healthcare services towards reducing maternal and child mortalities.

«Our findings suggest that despite the insurance expansion under the Massachusetts reform, access to timely outpatient visits to a doctor may not have improved much,,» said Danny McCormick, MD, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, and the study's lead author.

It also indicates the importance of assisting smokers with mental illness in overcoming barriers to accessing mental health care (e.g., insuring the uninsured, increasing the supply of mental health care professionals, improving linkages between primary care and mental health care) as a means to address smoking - related harm,» the authors write.

«With the increased stability that comes from having a home and reduced financial burdens, and being introduced into the social service system and the access to other support services it provides, people receiving housing assistance are getting improved access to primary care health services.

Improving access to the formal health care sector is a primary public health goal in many low - income countries.

This trial aims to improve equity of access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and further demonstrate the fundamental role that community pharmacists play in primary health care, strengthening the future for all pharmacists and contributing to a sustainable health system.

With their model of comprehensive primary health care and community governance, ACCHSs have reduced unintentional racism, barriers to access to health care, and are progressively improving individual health outcomes for Aboriginal people.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care by strengthening the health care workforce, building healthy communities, and achieving health eHealth Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care by strengthening the health care workforce, building healthy communities, and achieving health eHealth and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care by strengthening the health care workforce, building healthy communities, and achieving health ehealth care by strengthening the health care workforce, building healthy communities, and achieving health ehealth care workforce, building healthy communities, and achieving health ehealth equity.

Medicare Locals evolved from the international evidence on the value of a strong primary health care system and have been developing rapidly to improve the coordination of and access to General Practice, Mental Health, Aboriginal Health, Chronic Disease services and Aged Care services, as well as delivering local services to improve health in areas ofhealth care system and have been developing rapidly to improve the coordination of and access to General Practice, Mental Health, Aboriginal Health, Chronic Disease services and Aged Care services, as well as delivering local services to improve health in areas of ncare system and have been developing rapidly to improve the coordination of and access to General Practice, Mental Health, Aboriginal Health, Chronic Disease services and Aged Care services, as well as delivering local services to improve health in areas ofHealth, Aboriginal Health, Chronic Disease services and Aged Care services, as well as delivering local services to improve health in areas ofHealth, Chronic Disease services and Aged Care services, as well as delivering local services to improve health in areas of nCare services, as well as delivering local services to improve health in areas ofhealth in areas of need.

The available evidence of intermediate health outcomes achieved by effective Indigenous - specific health services gives grounds for governments to increase their investment in improving access to comprehensive primary health care.

Health centers have had bipartisan Congressional support for their more than 50 - year history because the model has proven efficient and effective in improving access to affordable, quality primary healthHealth centers have had bipartisan Congressional support for their more than 50 - year history because the model has proven efficient and effective in improving access to affordable, quality primary healthhealth care.

With their model of comprehensive primary health care and community governance, ACCHS have reduced unintentional racism, barriers to access to health care, and are progressively improving individual health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.