Chronic disease detection and access: does access improve detection, or does detection make access more difficult?

Access to care: how much difference does Medicaid make?

Using the 1994 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Access to Care Survey, we examine the likelihood of having a usual source of care, inability to obtain needed care, and number of physician visits for persons with private insurance, Medicaid coverage, and no insurance. Inability to obtain services is surprisingly consistent: For each service, Medicaid enrollees were about half as likely as...

Authentication, Access Control, and Intrusion Detection

An important requirement of any information management system is to protect information against improper disclosure or modi cation (known as con dentiality and integrity respectively). Three mutually supportive technologies are used to achieve this goal. Authentication, access control and audit together provide the foundation for information and system security as follows. Authentication establ...

Authentication, Access Controls, and Intrusion Detection

Does Advanced Access improve access to primary health care? Questionnaire survey of patients.

BACKGROUND General practices in England have been encouraged to introduce Advanced Access, but there is no robust evidence that this is associated with improved access in ways that matter to patients. AIM To compare priorities and experiences of patients consulting in practices which do or do not operate Advanced Access. DESIGN OF STUDY Patient questionnaire survey. SETTING Forty-seven pr...

Does Opacity Undermine Privileged Access ?

Carruthers argues that knowledge of our own propositional attitudes is achieved by the same mechanism used to attain knowledge of other people’s minds. This seems incompatible with “privileged access”—the idea that we have more reliable beliefs about our own mental states, regardless of the mechanism. At one point Carruthers seems to suggest he may be able to maintain privileged access, because...