Healthcare Access : New Threats, New Approaches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Önal, Ayşe Emel.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : IntechOpen, 2023.

Summary:

Access to health care is the ability to receive health services for the prevention, detection, and treatment of disorders that affect health.For health care to be accessible, it must be affordable and able to protect and improve health.There are myriad reasons that may make access to health services difficult or even impossible.

Contents:

Healthcare Access - New Threats, New Approaches

Contents

Preface

Section 1 Environment - Health Relationship and Access to Health Services

Chapter1 Impact of Poverty on Health

Chapter2 Climate Change, Conflict, and Contagion: Emerging Threats to Global Public Health

Section 2 Access to Health Services for Important Health Problems

Chapter3 Funding of Oncology Benefits by Medical Schemes, South Africa: A Focus on Breast and Cervical Cancer

Chapter4 Healthcare Services for the Physically Challenged Persons in Africa: Challenges and Way Forward

Chapter5 The Urgency of Access to Men-Centered Mental Healthcare Services to Address Men's Sensitive Issues in the Communities of South Africa

Chapter6 The 4H and 4T Pediatric Early Acute Support in the Deteriorating Child: Competent Staff Instead Experts Facing the NewThreats, and New Approaches Can Reduce Mortality - Experience in Guatemala

Section 3 Barriers and Opportunities to Access to Health Care and Universal Health Coverage

Chapter7 The Road to Universal Coverage by the End of 2022, the Moroccan Challenge

Chapter8 Poor Health Care Access in Nigeria: A Function of Fundamental Misconceptions and Misconstruction of the Health System

Chapter9 HomeVisitation by Community HealthWorkers

Section 4 Artificial Intelligence and Telemedicine in Health Care

Chapter10 Reinforcing Positive Cognitive States with Machine Learning: An Experimental Modeling for Preventive Healthcare.

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