Access to healthcare

James Orbinski is a research scientist and clinician at St. Michael s Hospital, Toronto, and an Associate Professor of Medicine and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He received his MD degree from McMaster University in 1990, and completed a Masters degree in international relations at the University of Toronto in 1998, before becoming international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) from 1998 to 2001. His research interests are focused on access to healthcare, medicines, and other health technologies medical humanitarianism in war and social crisis, and global health policy. 

We will provide the most convenient access to healthcare services and consumer goods in America. 

Information available to healthcare professionals Promotional material must be accessible to healthcare professionals only via a secure system that is designed to prevent access by members of the general public. Companies must take all reasonable steps to ensure that these information sources are appropriate and will enhance the appropriate prescribing, dispensing and usage of medicines in Australia. Any promotional material provided to healthcare professionals via the internet must comply with the requirements for other promotional items. 

The goal of the NLM has remained constant—to increase the availability of medical literature worldwide. In the past 50 years the NLM, working to achieve this goal, has contributed tremendously to the biomedical field (Table 1). In 1971, the NLM launched MEDLINE, an index to biomedical articles, to support the information needs of healthcare professionals. Originally used only by trained librarians, MEDLINE became directly accessible to healthcare professionals in the 1980s. - During the past two decades, the NLM expanded the topics of its databases and now includes a variety of databases on... 

McCray, A.T. Improving access to healthcare information The Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications. MD Comput. 2000, 29-34, March/April. http //www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible human. html (accessed Oct. 2000). 

Integrate population-based care and services into practice. Improve access to healthcare for those with unmet health needs. Practice relationship-centered care with individuals and families. 

Family privacy rights violated. Patients and family members are required to open their doors for a state and federal inspection of their home in return for access to healthcare services. Data collected is not limited to... 

The foundation of DM is in well-honed contracts for service, a model that suits the US healthcare delivery mechanism and business methodology well. It is precisely because of its US antecedents that many NHS policy makers see DM taking us closer to a US model of healthcare that is, in the UK, widely perceived to have failed. This is a prejudice that is not without some foundation, when taking into account the concept of universality of access to healthcare that is a cornerstone of the UK system, and substantially missing in its US counterpart. 

Access to healthcare services is a marker of primary care quality, because acute episodes of asthma are avoidable if they are managed and appropriately treated in the community. Gaps in access to medical services between urban and rural areas exist, and include such things as convenience of transportation, range of services provided locally, as well as the cost for medical treatment. The previous literature indicates that a lack of medical services and specialists are more common in rural than in urban areas (Rural Healthy People 2010), and there is a low utilization efficiency of hospice services in rural areas (Gessert et al. 2006) in addition, disparities exist in the threshold for admission to hospital or clinic care, between urban and rural physicians (Russo et al. 1999). 

There are no data available on the total worldwide use of pharmaceuticals and life-style drugs. The consumption and application of pharmaceuticals may vary considerably from country to country.Population growth and improving living standards and access to healthcare as well as increased consumption of meat in the case of veterinary pharmaceuticals lead one to expect that such introduction of pharmaceutically active compounds, adjuvants and contrast agents into the environment will increase. ... 

Section 27 (1) (a) everyone has the right to have access to healthcare services, including reproductive health. 

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