17 18 Implementation of a generic-based pharmaceutical policy including a highly regulated National Drug List and medicines pricing systems may have contributed to the assumed adequacy of access to medicines in Iran.
Examples of this include gender issues surrounding self-reported health, perceptions of the adequacy of access to health care and the gender-related nature of utilization of the health care system.
(C) Is subject to regular auditing and oversight by the State in order to ensure the quality and timeliness of the transportation services provided and the adequacy of beneficiary access to medical care and services.
Human rights principles, based on the Human Rights Convention, must be better respected in both jurisdictions, and an agreement between the sides should be reached that clearly defines what constitutes adequacy for government access to data.
State Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) is backing a Senate bill (SB 964) that seeks to increase state monitoring and enforcement of existing rules on network adequacy and timely access to care.
Patient satisfaction or awareness surveys might help determine patients' perception of the adequacy of their access to information about clinical trials, daily coping methods, or experimental therapies (this last being most relevant in life-critical situations).
5 In contrast, patients in poor countries or deprived and remote communities face huge challenges related to the adequacy of and access to health care, availability of medications (especially insulin), and storage problems (given that off-grid communities often have no refrigeration facilities).
Network adequacy regulations" expand patients' access to hospitals by mandating a lower bound on the number of hospitals that health insurers must include in their networks.
Nutrition, the natural and built environment including appropriate housing, income adequacy, empowerment, social connectedness, access to sport, recreation and cultural activity, education... these are the social determinants of health.
The Voices of the Hungry project has launched a new tool called the Food Insecurity Experience Scale FIESS) which can be used to gather information about the adequacy of people's access to food by asking them directly about their experiences.
35 36 Other demand-side barriers relate to accessibility, including distance and access to transport, and adequacy and acceptability, in terms of perceptions of quality of care.
