scholarly journals Obtaining Health Care Services for Low-Income Children: A Hierarchy of Needs

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 1192-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Devoe ◽  
Alan S. Graham ◽  
Heather Angier ◽  
Alia Baez ◽  
Lisa Krois
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Hierarchy Of Needs ◽  
Low Income Children ◽  
Care Services

scholarly journals Using Prospective Methods to Identify Fieldwork Locations Favourable to Understanding Divergences in Health Care Accessibility

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 506
Author(s):  
Jan Ketil Rød ◽  
Arne H. Eide ◽  
Thomas Halvorsen ◽  
Alister Munthali
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Low Income Countries ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Health Care Accessibility ◽  
Barriers To Health ◽  
Walking Time

Central to this article is the issue of choosing sites for where a fieldwork could provide a better understanding of divergences in health care accessibility. Access to health care is critical to good health, but inhabitants may experience barriers to health care limiting their ability to obtain the care they need. Most inhabitants of low-income countries need to walk long distances along meandering paths to get to health care services. Individuals in Malawi responded to a survey with a battery of questions on perceived difficulties in accessing health care services. Using both vertical and horizontal impedance, we modelled walking time between household locations for the individuals in our sample and the health care centres they were using. The digital elevation model and Tobler’s hiking function were used to represent vertical impedance, while OpenStreetMap integrated with land cover map were used to represent horizontal impedance. Combining measures of walking time and perceived accessibility in Malawi, we used spatial statistics and found spatial clusters with substantial discrepancies in health care accessibility, which represented fieldwork locations favourable for providing a better understanding of barriers to health access.

scholarly journals Characteristics of Morbidity and Choice of Health Care Facilities in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-55
Author(s):  
Arjun Kumar Thapa ◽  
Shiva Raj Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Acute Illness ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Seek Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Service Production ◽  
Care Facilities

In aftermath of People’s Movement 2008, the Government of Nepal promulgated health as a component of basic human rights. But Nepalese health consumers can seek health care services in government primary health facilities, hospitals, private clinics or do self–medication. The study intends to describe the characteristics of morbidity and factors associated in choosing particular type of health facility. For data, the study depends on a nationally representative rich cross sectional household survey data (Nepal Living Standard Survey, 2010/11) of Nepal. The findings of the study show that around one fifth of the total population reported acute illness while near about 10 percent is facing chronic illness. Around 30 percent of people reporting acute illness do not seek any health care services. Most of the rural people and poor population seek health care services in government primary health care facilities and private pharmacies. People belonging to low income quintiles are likely to seek health care services in government primary facilities. Similarly people residing in mountain & hill are likely to utilize services of government primary facilities. The study shows that urbanites are more likely to seek services in hospitals and private clinics. Therefore a homogeneous health care service production and delivery cannot address the country wide demand of health care services.

Community Leaders' Perceptions of Hispanic, Single, Low-Income Mothers' Needs, Concerns, Social Support, and Interactions with Health Care Services

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christie Campbell-Grossman ◽  
Diane Brage Hudson ◽  
Rebecca Keating-Lefler ◽  
Jodell R. Yank ◽  
Titilola Obafunwa
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Low Income Mothers

Access to Bulk-Billing General Practitioners in Tasmania

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Kelly Madden
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Low Incomes ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
The Cost ◽  
National Decline

Access to basic health care services is one of the fundamental rights enshrined in the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights. Imposition of fees for service restricts access to care, particularly for people on low incomes. In recent years there has been a slight national decline in bulk-billing by general practitioners that has been more pronounced in Tasmania. Evidence from Tasmania suggests significant numbers of general practitioners in some areas of the state are charging gap fees to Health Care and Pension Concession Cardholders. Local qualitative and quantitative data indicate that low-income earners are delaying or avoiding seeking health care because they are unable to afford the cost.

Estimating resource needs for HIV/AIDS health care services in low-income and middle-income countries

Health Policy ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Bertozzi ◽  
Juan-Pablo Gutierrez ◽  
Marjorie Opuni ◽  
Neff Walker ◽  
Bernhard Schwartländer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Resource Needs ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Right of access to health information

2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-142
Author(s):  
Jane Lynn Garrison Dytz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Low Income Mothers

The access to health information is one of the rights of the user of the public health care system, but it is little respected in health services. This study investigates the problem from the perspective of the female clientele. A qualitative study was carried out with a sample of seventeen low-income mothers, which reside in the outskirts of the Federal District. The mothers are frequent users of the health care services, but their adherence to prescribed conducts depends on social and economic factors and how they perceive the various alternatives at their hand. Access to health information is hampered by the mother's low level of instruction, use of folklore medicine, faulty communication and lack of receptive/nurturing environment, indifference to social rights on the part of health providers.

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