Previous research has indicated that adolescents and young people trying to get access to accessible, affordable and acceptable health services which may face many barriers such as psychosocial barriers; for instance, they prefer to provide contraceptive products from drugstores located in other neighborhoods rather than ones located nearby. In addition, different researchers have found various...

Recent advancements experienced by diverse network technologies, such as wireless personal and local area networks and wired networks, interacting with location systems, make possible the development of intelligent environments [4]. Elderly and disabled people compose a segment of the population that would profit very much from Ambient Intelligence if it is accessible. This is only possible if ...

In this project we examined access to health care by individuals with developmental disabilities in Kansas from low-income populations and from minority backgrounds. Four criteria for determining access were employed: availability, accessibility, affordability, and appropriateness of care. Factors that pose barriers and that facilitate access are described and recommendations are set out, with ...

Visually impaired students meet problems in attending scientific university courses. The main barriers concern reading scientific resources, which are usually available in formats not accessible through Braille devices and speech synthesizers, processing mathematical expressions through assistive tools and understanding and manipulating graphical representations. This paper illustrates the aims...

In Camden, New Jersey--as in many urban areas--health care costs are concentrated in a disproportionately small number of patients. These "super-utilizers" typically have multiple chronic conditions combined with social barriers that make it hard to access and coordinate the care they need to manage these conditions and stay healthy. Launched in 2002, the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Provider...

The TALISMAN+ project, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, aims to research and demonstrate innovative solutions transferable to society which offer services and products based on information and communication technologies in order to promote personal autonomy in prevention and monitoring scenarios. It will solve critical interoperability problems among systems and emerg...

Designing an interactive product or service for all possible users requires consideration of more than just physical accessibility. Even if there is sufficient physical accessibility, many systems will still present major barriers to their use, in terms of cognitive accessibility: the functionality, terminology, information structure and interface style frequently confuse the intended user. Usu...

This paper describes a methodology for estimating transit walk accessibility that overcomes the problems associated with barriers and uneven distribution of population, and a methodology for forecasting transit walk accessibility for a future year given forecast population and employment data, transit route information, and street configuration type. Comparison of the results with those from th...