6 results on '"access to care"'
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2. CoViD-19, innovazione tecnologica e i nuovi scenari dell’assistenza (a distanza)
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Giulia Mascagni, Carlo Botrugno, and Sandra Gallerini
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Health (social science) ,Inequality ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,media_common.quotation_subject ,alfabetizzazione sanitaria ,Health literacy ,accesso alle cure ,Public administration ,health divide ,assistenza sanitaria ,digital divide ,Political science ,Health care ,CoViD-19, digital divide, healthcare, health literacy, access to care, health divide, assistenza sanitaria, alfabetizzazione sanitaria, accesso alle cure, divario di salute ,media_common ,divario di salute ,access to care ,Government ,CoViD-19 ,Right to health ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,healthcare ,Health equity ,business ,Centrality ,health literacy - Abstract
The advent of the pandemic has renewed the centrality of health equity in healthcare and shown the urgency of reflecting on the factors that affect healthcare accessibility. In particular, there is a need to integrate the analysis on healthcare inequalities with the new disparities induced by the digitalization of healthcare. The article starts by highlighting three critical issues faced by the Italian NHS during the Covid-19 health emergency. After that, an overview of the main attempts made by the Italian Government to stimulate a digital transition of healthcare-delivery is provided. Finally, the interplay of conventional inequalities, digital divides and health literacy is assessed from a critical point of view and the risk of a two-speed right to health is emphasized. © 2021 Franco Angeli Edizioni. All rights reserved.
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- 2021
3. Diritti e copertura della long-term care in Europa : un approccio economico
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Ludovico Carrino and Carrino, L.
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access to care ,Health (social science) ,long-term care ,SHARE data ,ELSA data ,eligibility rules ,inequality ,accesso alle cure ,regole di accesso ,diseguaglianze ,Health Policy ,eligibility rule - Abstract
In the context of an unprecedented aging process, the role of domiciliary formal care for older adults is becoming increasingly essential. Understanding the design, scope and the legislation of main public programmes of long-term care (LTC) is essential to estimate the coverage of care programmes, and identify potential inequities in access to care. In this paper we highlight the large heterogeneity in the rules for accessing public LTC in European countries. We show how such differences stem from the absence of a unique definition of need-of-care. This implies that individuals with the same clinical profile may have very different eligibility status to LTC, depending on the local legislation. Employing microdata from SHARE and ELSA, we show how this is likely to result in inequities in care coverage. We then discuss the social and economic relevance of our findings.
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- 2020
4. Adolescence yesterday and today: care issues
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G. Caramia
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Adolescence ,adolescents ,legal rights ,adolescent health care ,access to care ,adolescents with cancer ,Pediatrics ,RJ1-570 ,Surgery ,RD1-811 - Abstract
In ancient Greece, the chronological boundaries of the stages of life hinged upon Solon’s theory of human life as divided into ten seven year stages. At the peak of Latin civilization, the chronological limits of the infant, pueritia and adulescentia were respectively 0-8 years, 8-16 years and 16-17 years, when in a ceremony the adolescent (a term derived from adolescente(m) present participle of the Latin verb adolescere = to grow) wearing the “toga of manhood” is declared an adult (teenager adult) and up to 30 years later iuventus. Throughout the following centuries, the chronological boundaries of the various ages came to acquire only a theoretical worth, since the child, once introduced to the world of work, used to suddenly become an adult. Only in the wave of Humanism in the XVI – XVII century, people started to rediscover the Greek ‘paideia’ (education), the Latin Humanitas’ (recognition and respect towards manhood in every man), and, through the Christian ‘caritas’ (to recognize and to love the son of God in every man) begins a moral vision of childhood, of his weakness and innocence, a reflection of the ‘divine purity’. In this evolution, the twentieth century identifies itself with adolescence, so that history moves from an era devoiced of adolescence to an age in which adolescence appears to be the privileged age: the adolescent is the hero of the twentieth century. Several and many important institutions have proceeded to recognize the essential rights of adolescent care in pediatric departments, but many are still admitted to adult wards with suboptimal therapeutic results, particularly for blood-cancer. The pediatrician, both the family one and the one in the hospital, must be the referees for the health of the adolescent, especially in cases of chronic diseases or in those of psychosocial relevance, following her in the path of the disease especially if other specialists are involved with a view to further investigation, and establishing, since early childhood, communication, dialogue and compliance with her and the whole family. One of the greatest philosophers and sophists of Magna Graecia, Gorgia of Lentini, used to state that the word has tremendous power: it can instill the joy, eliminate pain, enhance compassion, put an end to fear: then be medicine for the suffering. The doctor is in fact, in certain situations of life, a drug for his patient. He is the most widely used drug because drugs are not the only thing that matters: the soul of medicine lies in the relationship, in the communication between the healer and the healed.
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- 2012
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5. Comprendere le disuguaglianze sociali di salute : Donne in gravidanza in condizioni di precariet
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JACQUES, Béatrice, Centre Émile Durkheim (CED), and Sciences Po Bordeaux - Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux (IEP Bordeaux)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Women in precarious situations ,[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,Reproductive health ,Access to care ,Health policy ,Social inequalities - Abstract
accessible en ligne : http://www.cambio.unifi.it/upload/sub/Numero6/22_Jacques.pdf; European countries, including France, have experienced a strong gain in life expectancy due to advances in science and health policy implemented in last 60 years. However, even if several devices have main role to reduce social inequalities in health care provision trying to diversify to meet different kinds of people, we still found strong disparities in terms of: use of care, medical consumption, and between social groups. This raises wider issues of social justice. Therefore, our study focuses on access to reproductive health care and reproductive health in a territory of Aquitaine (France).
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- 2013
6. [Questions unanswered and Answers unquestioned: what we do and do not know about women and kidney diseases. Reflection on World Kidney Day and International Women's Day].
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Piccoli GB, Alrukhaimi M, Liu ZH, Zakharova E, and Levin A
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- Acute Kidney Injury epidemiology, Acute Kidney Injury therapy, Cardiovascular Diseases epidemiology, Cardiovascular Diseases prevention & control, Female, Forecasting, Health Services Accessibility, Healthcare Disparities, Humans, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications epidemiology, Pregnancy Complications therapy, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic epidemiology, Renal Insufficiency, Chronic therapy, Renal Replacement Therapy statistics & numerical data, Research, Risk, Role, Sex Distribution, Kidney Diseases epidemiology, Kidney Diseases therapy, Women's Health
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Chronic Kidney Disease affects approximately 10% of the world's adult population: it is within the top 20 causes of death worldwide, and its impact on patients and their families can be devastating. World Kidney Day and International Women's Day in 2018 coincide, thus offering an opportunity to reflect on the importance of women's health and specifically their kidney health, on the community, and the next generations, as well as to strive to be more curious about the unique aspects of kidney disease in women so that we may apply those learnings more broadly. Girls and women, who make up approximately 50% of the world's population, are important contributors to society and their families. Gender differences continue to exist around the world in access to education, medical care, and participation in clinical studies. Pregnancy is a unique state for women, offering an opportunity for diagnosis of kidney disease, but also a state where acute and chronic kidney diseases may manifest, and which may impact future generations with respect to kidney health. There are various autoimmune and other conditions that are more likely to impact women with profound consequences for child bearing, and on the fetus. Women have different complications on dialysis than men, and are more likely to be donors than recipients of kidney transplants. In this editorial, we focus on what we do and do not know about women, kidney health, and kidney disease, and what we might learn in the future to improve outcomes worldwide., (Copyright by Società Italiana di Nefrologia SIN, Rome, Italy.)
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- 2018
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