Healthcare Access
It is not utopian thinking to say that every man, woman and child should have access to health care as a right - Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Global Access to Healthcare
Access to healthcare is a key topic of debate worldwide. Countries are facing a range of healthcare challenges, from rising numbers of patients with multiple chronic diseases amid population ageing to providing access to new and innovative treatments that are also cost-effective. Healthcare systems must reconcile these challenges against a backdrop of already stretched budgets. As a result, the ability of populations to access the healthcare they need is increasingly under the spotlight
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Here’s how to improve access to healthcare around the world
While this is an urgent issue in emerging low-and middle-income countries, sustainable access to care is also a severe issue in industrialized countries where social determinants have a direct link to the economic and social opportunities afforded to one population over another.
Poverty Impacts Access to Health Care. These Women Are Trying to Change That.
A look at three women who are working to make people with low incomes healthier.
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Why Access to Health Care Is Not the Same as Having Good Care
Coverage for millions of newly insured Americans requires a coordinated, multipronged approach, experts say.
A Day of Seeking Healthcare for the Undocumented and Uninsured
Seeing a doctor is Sisyphean task for those without citizenship in the US.
Almost two million women lost access to contraception during the pandemic with 90,000 unexpected pregnancies predicted
While the life-changing consequences of the pandemic are still being studied, new data has revealed that we may see a rise in unexpected pregnancies after hundreds of thousands of women lost access to contraception and abortion services this year.
Call it data liberation day: Patients can now access all their health records digitally
The new environment is a radical departure from the status quo. For decades, it’s been all but impossible for patients to quickly and easily access their records. Hospitals and other organizations are loath to relinquish that information for a couple of business reasons. It makes it easier to retain patients in their care, and it keeps them in control of information with high commercial and research value.
Equitable Access To Healthcare Starts With Affordable Broadband For All
Yes, the pandemic has brought to light just how deep and wide America’s inequities run. Now tech companies, internet service providers, and other forward-thinking companies must step up and help America’s healthcare system move into a digitally accelerated era of greater equity and access.
How Can We Achieve Equal Global Health Access?
Half of the world’s population lacks access to essential health services. Each year, around 100 million are pushed into poverty due to having to pay for necessary healthcare out of their own pockets.
How does cost affect access to care?
Uninsured adults continue to face access barriers due to cost of care...
How Healthcare Costs Hurt American Workers and Benefit the Wealthy
The historical accident of employer-based coverage is a huge barrier to reform. So is the way that the health care industry is protected in Washington by its lobbyists—five for every member of Congress. Our government is complicit in an extortion that is an important contributor to income inequality in America today
How States Can Expand Health Care Access in Rural Communities
The pre-pandemic literature shows that expanding scope of practice for nonphysician providers does not diminish quality of care and can improve access to care.
In New Survey of 11 Countries, U.S. Adults Still Struggle with Access to and Affordability of Health Care
Adults in the U.S. are more likely than those in the 10 other countries to go without needed health care because of costs.
Insurance Access Is Just a Fraction of Our Health Care Problem
Almost all American kids have health insurance, thanks to CHIP and Medicaid. Why do they still have such different outcomes?
Making health care more affordable and accessible for the elderly: insight from the US and France
Widening Americans’ access to affordable health care has long been a subject of political debate...
NHS fares best on free access to healthcare
Britain is the only country in the industrialised world where wealth does not determine access to healthcare...
Sharing Your Digital Health Data: New Rules Ease Access
Consumers might be able to organize all their health visit and insurer data on their smartphones, but will face privacy questions.
Top Challenges Impacting Patient Access to Healthcare
In addition to healthcare industry hurdles, many patients face a number of social determinants of health that make it harder for them to get into the doctor’s office.
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Care Access
Our goal is to engage every healthcare professional in clinical research and to make clinical trials a care option for every patient.
Healthy People 2030
Many people in the United States don’t get the health care services they need. Healthy People 2030 focuses on improving health by helping people get timely, high-quality health care services.
Health Access California
The statewide health care consumer advocacy coalition working for quality, affordable health care for all Californians.
