Providing nomadic people with health care

Providing nomadic people with health care.

Providing connectivity to the Saami nomadic community

This paper describes the Saami Network Connectivity (SNC) project that seeks to establish Internet communication for the Saami population of Reindeer Herders, who live in remote areas in Swedish Lapland, and relocate their base in accordance with a yearly cycle dictated by the natural behavior of reindeer. This population currently does not have reliable wired, wireless or satellite communicati...

Providing integrated care for older people with complex needs

„ „ Integrated care is a process that must be led, managed and nurtured over time. Initiatives often have to navigate and overcome existing organisational and funding silos. „ „ There is no single organisational model or approach that best supports integrated care. The starting point should be a clinical/service model designed to improve care for people, not an organisational model with a pre-d...

Physician experiences providing primary care to people with disabilities.

The 2003 Statistics Canada Health Services Access Survey found that 12% of Canadians polled did not have a family doctor, and 18% reported access problems such as long waiting times and difficulty contacting the doctor. Research has repeatedly shown that where a problem with access exists in the general population, it is considerably more severe in subsets of the population that are most disadv...

Health care for people with intellectual disability.

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