In this article, we present the results of a series of focus groups with people with disabilities, in which we took a cross-disability, lifespan perspective of disability. Consumers were asked about a broad set of barriers, such as problems with communication, transportation, and insurance, as well as about barriers related to physical accessibility. We used the Institute of Medicine’s framewor...

Background Insurance companies are key stakeholders in the health care industry but they have not generally participated in proactive research and innovation in order to simultaneously increase the affordability, simplicity, and accessibility of healthcare. In 2013, CMU announced the formation of the Disruptive Health Technology Institute (DHTI) that has been launched with support from Highmark...

Introduction Access to therapeutic drugs form an integral part of any successful healthcare system. The high cost of drugs, however, remains a barrier to accessibility and improved health to the majority of the South African population1. The promotion of generic drug consumption could potentially be an important cost-saving mechanism in this regard for final consumers, insurance providers, and ...

background the current distribution of and access to health services along with the future health needs of the population have prompted wide application of geographic information systems (giss). during recent years, gis has been used in public health management for planning and organization of healthcare services. this study investigates geographical accessibility of residential areas in bandar...

Introduction This paper examines the relationship between national health insurance enrolment and the utilisation of inpatient and outpatient healthcare for older adults in rural areas in Ghana. The Ghanaian National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) aims to improve affordability and increase the utilisation of healthcare. However, the system has been criticised for not being responsive to the nee...

OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of accessibility of dental services and other factors on the development of early childhood caries (ECC) among Toronto children 48 months of age or younger with at least one Portuguese-speaking immigrant parent. METHODS This population-based case-control study involved 52 ECC cases and 52 controls (i.e., without ECC) identified from community centres, chur...

to determine the factors affecting the acceptation of rice insurance in sari township a number of 90 farmers (45 assured and 45 not assured) were sampled. the information consisted of personal (age, size of family, activity experiment, damage experiment, and non-farm income); social (studies level, agrarian regimes, locality); and geography (farm size, distance between farm to insurance broker)...

introduction: the success of a health system depends on the accessibility and the quality of health services it provides. one major indicator of service quality is peoples satisfaction from the service. in this article, healthcare availability and satisfaction of people in 17th zone of tehran is investigated. methods: population research center has performed a survey in 17th zone of tehran to i...

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) was established to enhance the accessibility of Web resources for people with disabilities. In this paper we argue that although WAI’s advocacy work has been very successful, the WAI approach is flawed. Rather than WAI’s emphasis on adoption of technical guidelines, the authors argue that the priority should be for a user-focussed approach, which embeds be...

Purpose This study evaluated trends in tooth extraction due to acute and chronic periodontal disease (PD) using data from the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort for 2002-2013. Methods A random sample of 1,025,340 individuals was selected as a representative sample of the population, and a database (DB) of diagnostic and prescription codes was followed up for 12 years. We...