Access to Health Care

To what extent can we have truly universal, comprehensive and timely health services, equally available to all? Access to Health Care considers the meaning of 'access' in health care and examines the theoretical issues that underpin these questions.

Auteur

Martin Gulliford is Senior Lecturer in Public Health,
Myfanwy Morgan is Reader in Sociology of Health in the Department of Public Health Sciences, King's College London.

Contenu

Chapter 1 Introduction, Martin Gulliford, José Figueroa-Muñoz, Myfanwy Morgan; Chapter 2 Geographical Access to Health Care, Robin Haynes; Chapter 3 Equity and Access to Health Care, Martin Gulliford; Chapter 4 Patients' Help-Seeking and Access to Health Care, Myfanwy Morgan; Chapter 5 Organisational Barriers to Access, Roger Beech; Chapter 6 Financial Incentives and Barriers to Access, David Hughes; Chapter 7 Access to Health Care in the United States, Sarah C. Blake, Kenneth E. Thorpe, Kelly G. Howell; Chapter 8 Access to Health Care in the European Union, Mossialos Elias, Thomson Sarah; Chapter 9 Access to Dental Services, Gibson Barry; Chapter 10 Evaluation and Access, Myfanwy Morgan, Martin Gulliford, Meryl Hudson; Chapter 11 Reform, Rationing and Choice in a Changing Context, Martin Gulliford, Myfanwy Morgan;