Reducing Health Disparities by Removing Cost, Access, and Knowledge Barriers

Reducing health disparities by removing cost, access, and knowledge barriers.

BACKGROUND While the rate of unintended pregnancy has declined in the United States in recent years, unintended pregnancy among teens in the United States is the highest among industrialized nations, and disproportionately affects minority teens. OBJECTIVE Our objective of this secondary analysis was to estimate the risk of unintended pregnancy for both Black and White teens age 15-19 years w...

Homelessness: reducing health disparities.

Commentary Commentaire H omelessness, a phenomenon with complex causes and potential for tragic consequences, is a public health and societal problem in cities, towns and rural areas worldwide. Men, women and children — be they refugees in Eastern Europe, street children in Uganda or what the developed world thinks of as " the homeless " — make up a growing vulnerable population that is at an u...

Health disparities and access to health.

Understanding disparities in health care access--and reducing them--through a focus on public health.

Attempts to explain disparities in access to health care faced by racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations often focus on individual-level factors such as demographics, personal health beliefs, and health insurance status. This article proposes an examination of these disparities-and an effort to redress them-through the lens of public health. Public health agencies can li...

Evidence for Policy Making: Health Services Access and Regional Disparities in Kerman

Background and purpose: Health indices, regarding to their role in the development of society, are one of the most important indices at national level. Success of national development programs is largely dependent on the establishment of appropriate goals at the health sector, among which access to healthcare facilities is an essential requirement. The aim of this study was to examine the dispa...