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Accessibility and factors associated with utilization of mental health services in youth health centers. A qualitative comparative analysis in northern Sweden Institute of Tropical Medicine

Isabel Goicolea, Cecilia Hultstrand Ahlin, Anna-Karin Waenerlund, Bruno Marchal, Monica Christianson, Maria Wiklund, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Miguel San Sebastian

Background: Youth-friendly health care services can facilitate young people's access to health care services and promote their health, including their mental health. In Sweden, a network of youth health centers exist since the 1970s, incorporated within the public health system. Even if such centers take a holistic approach to youth health, the focus has been in sexual and reproductive health care, and the extent of integrating mental health ...

Exploring the temporal variations in accessibility to health services for older adults : a case study in Greater London Ghent University

Yuerong Zhang, Mengqiu Cao, Long Cheng, Xing Gao, Jonas De Vos
Introduction: Increasing attention has been paid to accessibility and equity during the last two decades. Yet, despite the proliferation of studies investigating accessibility and equity from the perspective of the younger generation, only modest progress has been made in embedding a temporal perspective and targeting health services for older adults. Currently, the number of people over 60s in London is growing rapidly and is projected to ...

Spatial accessibility to basic public health services in South Sudan Institute of Tropical Medicine

Peter Macharia, Paul O Ouma, Ezekiel G Gogo, Robert W Snow, Abdisalan M Noor

At independence in 2011, South Sudan's health sector was almost non-existent. The first national health strategic plan aimed to achieve an integrated health facility network that would mean that 70% of the population were within 5 km of a health service provider. Publically available data on functioning and closed health facilities, population distribution, road networks, land use and elevation were used to compute the fraction of the ...

Measuring accessibility to health care services for older bus passengers : a finer spatial resolution Ghent University

Wendong Chen, Long Cheng, Xuewu Chen, Jingxu Chen, Mengqiu Cao
Health care accessibility is a vital indicator for evaluating areas where there are medical shortages. However, due to the lack of population data with a satisfactory spatial resolution, efforts to accurately measure health care accessibility among older individuals have been hampered to some extent. To address this issue, we attempt to measure accessibility to health care services for older bus passengers in Nanjing, China, using a finer ...

Nomads' perceptions of quality, accessibility, and affordability of health services as determinants of using skilled birth attendants in Gossi, Mali. Institute of Tropical Medicine

Mohamed Ali Ag Ahmed, Louise Hamelin-Brabant, Marie-Pierre Gagnon
Aim: More than half of all maternal deaths worldwide occur in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). For nomadic pastoralists (30 to 60 million) in SSA, the risk of maternal death is very high because of the low proportion of assisted deliveries in the areas where they live. The objective of this research was to understand the determinants of using skilled birth attendants in relation to the perceptions of quality, geographic accessibility, and financial ...

Accessibility to oral health care for people on social assistance : a survey of social service providers from Public Welfare Centers in Flanders Ghent University

Fee Verheire, Luc De Visschere, Carla Fernandez Rojas, Martijn Lambert, Luc Marks
Objectives: The goals of the present study were as follows: (i) to explore the characteristics of the Flemish Public Centers for Social Welfare (PCSW) concerning oral health care; (ii) to explore possible barriers experienced by people on social assistance and oral health-care providers; and (iii) to explore the accessibility of general and oral health care for people on social assistance. Methods: The data of this cross-sectional study were ...

Modeling Geographical Accessibility and Inequalities to Childbirth Services in the Grand Nokoué Metropolitan Area, Benin Institute of Tropical Medicine

Yiséché S C Hounménou, Elias Martinien Avahoundjè, Aline Semaan, Christian Mahugnon Agossou, Christelle Boyi Hounsou, Mena K Agbodjavou, Giulia Scarpa, AD Dossou, Thierry O Lawale, Romuald Bothon, et al.
Timely access to comprehensive , high-quality emergency obstetric and neonatal care can prevent maternal and neonatal mortality but remains challenging in Benin. We examine geographic accessibility to childbirth care (CBC) in Grand Nokoué, the largest conurbation in Benin. We gathered data on boundaries, health facilities, road network, elevation, land cover, relative wealth, urbanicity, and geo-traced travel speeds over 45 days during the rainy ...

Measuring the accessibility of different household income groups to basic community services in upland Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Frank Canters
Improving household accessibility to basic community services can help reduce poverty in upland areas. In this study, spatial analysis with GIS was used to measure the accessibility of different household income groups to community services in the landlocked upland municipality Claveria in Northern Mindanao, the Philippines. Important community services were identified through villagers' participation in a matrix-scoring activity. Travel ...

Examining geographical accessibility to multi-tier hospital care services for the elderly University of Antwerp Ghent University

Long Cheng, Min Yang, Jonas De Vos, Frank Witlox
Background: With the rapid demographic shift towards an ageing society, it is a concerted effort to facilitate elderly's access to healthcare in order to maintain and improve their quality of life. In China, hospital care services dominate the healthcare market, which requires a better understanding of accessibility to hospitals in order to rationally allocate resources in spatial and land use planning. However, little attention has been paid to ...

Measuring the accessibility of different household income groups to basic community services in upland Misamis Oriental, Northern Mindanao, Philippines KU Leuven

Frank Canters
Improving household accessibility to basic community services can help reduce poverty in upland areas. In this study, spatial analysis with GIS was used to measure the accessibility of different household income groups to community services in the landlocked upland municipality Claveria in Northern Mindanao, the Philippines. Important community services were identified through villagers' participation in a matrix-scoring activity. Travel ...