The Effective Features of Access to Medical Care
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Accessibility is an important concept in organization studies; that is financing and giving services to health system. Also, availability is important in a political system and it is the main goal of health policy makers. The aim of present study is to review and evaluate the main theoretical frameworks which support accessibility and also measures availability standards in a health system. This article has a critical review over the main subject matters of the supporting theories on the effective components of health services access. The access theories are dynamic processes that are potentially influential for individuals and/ families' learning and changing their behavior. But the learning and adaptation has received minor attention on experimental research phase in the given medical services access. Researchers should derive into the dynamic aspects of access (accessibility) and also they should try to improve the mechanism for service improvement. This paper various accessibility models were used to understand concepts of accessibility of medical services. The reflection of such services may be quite influential processes in the real world as to directly formulate the health services and the treatment policies improvements.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011