US health care. I: The access problem.

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...

Controlling the costs of US health care.

With US health expenditure rising past 16% of the country's total economic output—a level almost 50% higher than in any other country—politicians and business executives are scrambling to avoid the bills for America's ragged patchwork of public and private health systems. Opinion polls indicate that health-care bills are now of greater concern to the US public than terrorism, illegal immigratio...

Challenges Facing the US Health Care System

Introduction The 22nd Princeton Conference examined a range of contemporary health care system changes and challenges. The conference began with a dinner talk from Professor Uwe Reinhardt about the hazards of " consumer directed " health plans and the lack of price and cost transparency. The first session on the impact of consolidation in the health care delivery system suggested robust consoli...

The state of US health-care reform.

Socioeconomic, Geospatial, and Geopolitical Disparities in Access to Health Care in the US 2011–2015

Individuals forgoing needed medical care due to barriers associated with cost are at risk of missing needed care that may be necessary for the prevention or maintenance of a chronic condition among other things. Thus, continued monitoring of factors associated with forgone medical care, especially among vulnerable populations, is critical. National survey data (2011-2015) for non-institutionali...