Beyond access to basic services: perspectives on social health determinants of Mozambique

Survey the Determinants of Access to Preventive Dental Services

Background and Aim: Military dentistry combines patient-centered care with public health views to create services agile and comprehensive. The effect of oral disease on military personnel can significantly damage the individual's operational ability. A significant concern of various countries in providing universal health coverage is access to dental services and oral health care, which require...

Beyond Scaling Up: Pathways to Universal Access to Health Services

Survey and Analysis of Ardabil City Suburbs Access to the Health Care Delivery Services (Health Centers)

Background & objectives: Health care centers are among the most important and essential centers that proper and timely access to them is one of the basic goals of social justice. The health of the individual and the community depends on the centers that provide primary health care. Rapid, timely, and inexpensive access to these centers is very important and necessary, in any community, especial...

The Social Determinants of Health Related to Diabetes Control–Yazd

Objective: Social determinant of health (SDH) are different from medical care and services. These factors themselves are affected by social policies, and they influence health more than medical care and services do. Due to the importance of chronic non-communicable diseases especially diabetes in Yazd, and assuming the effect of SDH, the present study was conducted in order to examine the relat...

Community perspectives on the determinants of maternal health in rural southern Mozambique: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Mozambique has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. The main influences on maternal health encompass social, economic, political, environmental and cultural determinants of health. To effectively address maternal mortality in the post-2015 agenda, interventions need to consider the determinants of health so that their delivery is not limited to the he...