Access to health care of persons with disabilities as an indicator of equity in health systems

Health systems are often evaluated using indicators such as maternal mortality, which reflect the health status of the population and the effectiveness of health services. Addressing the right to health of persons with disabilities is a significant challenge for health systems because health service...

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Autores principales: MacLachlan, Malcolm, Mannan, Hasheem, McAuliffe, Eilish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2011
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Analysis and Comment
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3205810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22046213
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description Health systems are often evaluated using indicators such as maternal mortality, which reflect the health status of the population and the effectiveness of health services. Addressing the right to health of persons with disabilities is a significant challenge for health systems because health services for this subgroup are interdependent on other sectors in society, such as education, employment and transportation. By considering health care access of persons with disabilities, it is possible to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the health system in terms of equity, accessibility and right to health.
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spelling pubmed-32058102011-11-01 Access to health care of persons with disabilities as an indicator of equity in health systems MacLachlan, Malcolm Mannan, Hasheem McAuliffe, Eilish Open Med Analysis and Comment Health systems are often evaluated using indicators such as maternal mortality, which reflect the health status of the population and the effectiveness of health services. Addressing the right to health of persons with disabilities is a significant challenge for health systems because health services for this subgroup are interdependent on other sectors in society, such as education, employment and transportation. By considering health care access of persons with disabilities, it is possible to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the health system in terms of equity, accessibility and right to health. Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2011-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC3205810/ /pubmed/22046213 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/ Open Medicine applies the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike License, which means that anyone is able to freely copy, download, reprint, reuse, distribute, display or perform this work and that authors retain copyright of their work. Any derivative use of this work must be distributed only under a license identical to this one and must be attributed to the authors. Any of these conditions can be waived with permission from the copyright holder. These conditions do not negate or supersede Fair Use laws in any country.
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