Unmet health care needs are determined as the difference between the services judged necessary and the services actually received, and stem from barriers related to accessibility, availability and acceptability. This study aims to examine the prevalence of unmet needs and to identify the socioeconomic and health status factors that are associated with unmet needs. A cross-sectional study was co...

Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) hold significant potential to transform how we communicate, collaborate, interact with others. However, there has been a lack of work date investigating accessibility barriers in relation immersive technologies for people disabilities. To address current gaps knowledge, led two multidisciplinary sandpits key stakeholders (including academic researchers, AR/...

BACKGROUND People with disabilities report physical barriers in doctors' offices that affect the quality of care. Whether most or few doctors' offices are accessible is not known. We address this gap with data on 2389 primary care provider facilities. OBJECTIVES The analysis seeks to describe overall primary care office physical accessibility and identify (1) in which areas offices meet acces...

The purpose of this study was to examine rural and urban women's perceptions of barriers to health and mental health services as well as barriers to criminal justice system services. Eight focus groups were conducted, two in a selected urban county (n = 30 women) and two in each of three selected rural counties (n = 98 women). Results were classified into a barrier framework developed in the he...

Despite the importance of web accessibility in recent years, websites remain partially or completely inaccessible to certain sectors of the population. This is due to several reasons, including web developers’ little or no experience in accessibility and the lack of accurate information about the best ways to quickly and easily identify accessibility problems using different Accessibility Evalu...

abstract purpose: measures the rate of physical accessibility to printed book collection at a major iranian university library system. methodology: a list of 2972 titles cited in 97 theses completed in the last two years was checked against the online catalog of the university of isfahan (iran) to determine their availability, then search was carried out to find out how far titles with records ...

Web access is affected by a great amount of accessibility issues that do not allow some users to access all information presented. Therefore, Web accessibility is an important issue because everybody should access Web content independently of their access features. Among these accessibility issues, a Web content element that interferes with Web accessibility is a CAPTCHA. A CAPTCHA is a challen...

Testing accessibility of a web site is still an art. Lack of appropriate definitions of accessibility and of standard testing methods are some of the reasons why Web accessibility is so difficult to achieve. The paper describes a heuristic walkthrough method based on barriers; it then discusses how methods like this can be evaluated, and it shows experimental data about validity and usefulness ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of barriers to healthcare utilization in persons with fatiguing illness and describe its association with socio-demographics, the number of health conditions, and frequency of healthcare utilization. Furthermore, we sought to identify what types of barriers interfered with healthcare utilization and why they occurred. METHOD...

BACKGROUND Housing environments that hinder performance of daily activities and impede participation in social life have negative health consequences particularly for the older segment of the population. From a public health perspective accessible housing that supports active and healthy ageing is therefore crucial. The objective of the present study was to make an inventory of environmental ba...