Societal Health and Improvement of Access to Care

Access to oral health care: Professional and societal considerations.

Access to health care is a complex subject with vast personal, economic, political, and societal ramifications. Issues concerning the rights and responsibilities of health care professionals-collectively and as individual members of a profession-comprise an important topic within ongoing debates concerning access to care, and constituted the overarching focus of the deliberations that form the ...

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

A Study of Children's Geographic Access to Health Services (Health Care Centers and Clinical Laboratories) in Kermanshah City, Iran

Background Given that the protection of children's health is of special importance due to their special age and physical conditions, the present study aimed to investigate the condition of children's Geographic access to health services (Health Centers and Clinical Laboratories) in Kermanshah city, Iran. Materials and Methods: In this applied study, the research approach was descriptive-analyti...

Misallocating health care and societal resources.

Equal access to health care.

Equal access to health care A t the heart of the December editorial on poverty and health is the issue of what we as physicians can do about the problem. Dr McGregor clearly reviews the evidence that poor health is one of the miseries attributable to poverty. While accepting that reducing poverty in this country is beyond the capabilities of doctors, she does urge us to be advocates for tacklin...