The phrase "access deficit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing limitations or shortages in access to resources, services, or information.
Example: "The study highlighted the access deficit faced by rural communities in obtaining healthcare services."
Alternatives: "access shortfall" or "access gap".
This evidence, together with the results of lesion overlapping, suggests the presence of a type of non-refractory semantic access deficit.
Factors external to, as well as within, the health sector are key to understanding the access deficit in the FSU where low or concentrated HIV/AIDS epidemics are prevalent.
(Note: Although we refer to both of these hypotheses as falling under a "core deficit", other authors have termed the latter hypothesis the "access deficit" hypothesis [ 36].) According to the triple-code model of numerical cognition [ 58, 59], numbers are represented in three primary codes: visual (Arabic digits), verbal (number words), and analog (magnitude representation).
Thus, in this article health worker shortages are used as a tracer indicator estimating the proportion of the population lacking access to such services: The SAD (ILO Staff Access Deficit Indicator) estimates gaps towards UHC in the context of Social Protection Floors (SPFs).
We conclude that patients with Wernicke's aphasia have two types of semantic access impairment both difficulty with initial conceptual activation (ameliorated by repetition) and difficulty in the face of strong competition (increased by repetition), whereas patients with semantic aphasia show the second type of semantic access deficit in isolation.
In the 'Introduction' section, we defined refractory access deficits as a subtype of access deficits characterized by sensitivity of the patients to 'temporal factors' (presentation rate).
This suggests that lesion location, rather than size, predicts semantic access deficits.
In all regions of the world, the population living in rural areas is experiencing the highest access deficits to health care far from UHC.
Indeed, within the cases characterized as 'semantic access' deficits, most of the patients previously described have been sensitive to this variable, and therefore the main theoretical accounts for this type of deficit have involved refractoriness.
Individuals in both groups can have left inferior frontal gyrus damage (Gardner et al., 2012; Robson et al., 2012), and this is not predictive of aphasia classification yet could relate to semantic access deficits.
However, this account is challenged by the observation that other aphasic patients can be equally impaired at phonemic discrimination tasks without showing severe semantic access deficits at the single word level (Blumstein et al., 1977).
