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In the U.S., having health insurance is necessary, but not sufficient to ensure access to affordable medical care. While the U.S. lacks a universal health care system like those that exist in most ...
The Institute of Medicine in the United States says fragmentation of the U.S. health care delivery and financing system is a barrier to accessing care. Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be enrolled in health insurance plans which place limits on covered services and offer a limited number of health care providers. [8]: 10
The paper described how healthcare barrier models like the Health Care Access Barriers (HCAB) model provide a framework for analyzing, categorizing, and detailing the determinants of health status. [77] The HCAB model categorizes measurable healthcare barriers into financial, structural, and cognitive groups. [77]
The community health center (CHC) in the United States is the dominant model for providing integrated primary care and public health services for the low-income and uninsured, and represents one use of federal grant funding as part of the country's health care safety net. The health care safety net can be defined as a group of health centers ...
A key example was the acquisition of Coastal Medical by Lifespan in 2021. Lifespan spent tens of millions of dollars on the acquisition, during the depths of the pandemic, with apparently little ...
[36] People with disabilities face barriers to healthcare access due to many factors including inaccessible healthcare providers, steeper healthcare costs, and bias among healthcare providers. Healthcare settings may not always be physically accessible to patients with mobility issues due to transportation barriers or inaccessible within the ...
In order to promote equity in access to reproductive health care, health programs and services should conduct analyses to identify gender inequalities and barriers to health, and determine the programmatic implications. The analyses will help inform decisions about how to design, implement, and scale up health programs that meet the ...
Immigrant health care is considered distinct from citizen health care, due to intersecting socioeconomic factors and health policies associated with immigration status. Disparities in health care usage, coverage, and quality are also observed, not only between immigrants and citizens but also among immigrant groups as well. [ 2 ]