Accessing health care: responding to diversity

Professional Uncertainty and Disempowerment Responding to Ethnic Diversity in Health Care: A Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND While ethnic disparities in health and health care are increasing, evidence on how to enhance quality of care and reduce inequalities remains limited. Despite growth in the scope and application of guidelines on "cultural competence," remarkably little is known about how practising health professionals experience and perceive their work with patients from diverse ethnic communities. ...

Barriers to accessing primary health care: comparing Australian experiences internationally.

Most highly developed economies have embarked on a process of primary health care (PHC) transformation. To provide evidence on how nations vary in terms of accessing PHC, the aim of this study is to describe the extent to which barriers to access were experienced by adults in Australia compared with other countries. Communities participating in an international research project on PHC access in...

Barriers to accessing health care among transgender individuals

Accessing oral health care in Australia.

Why try a doctor when you need a dentist? ral conditions have some of the highest prevalence and incidence rates of all health problems in Australia. 1 They are frequently associated with pain, functional limitations and interference with usual activities. Most people experiencing oral symptoms will visit, or at least contemplate visiting, a dentist. But why are some patients with oral conditio...

Responding to Traveling Patients' Seasonal Demands for Health Care

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides care to over eight million Veterans and operates over 1,700 sites of care distributed across twenty-one regional networks in the United States. Health care providers within VHA report large seasonal variation in the demand for services, especially in healthcare systems located in the southern U.S. that experience a large influx of "snowbirds" du...