This is particularly important in the Australian context, where time and distance are major impediments to service delivery.
These include better targeting of education, health and social assistance services towards the poor, addressing government-related impediments to service quality and effectiveness, increasing community participation, and scaling up on the basis of successful programs.
The absence of a stroke strategy and stroke prevalence statistics were identified as significant impediments to service planning, alongside organisational barriers limiting the recruitment of additional allied health professional staff, and lack of sharing of discipline-specific information on patients.
The Yahoo board is already winning points for their conviction that this is no impediment to service.
These barriers acted as impediments to accessing services, particularly for the new migrants and the elderly.
Lack of security and inability to move freely, in addition to limited access to healthcare facilities, were also major impediments to referral services in humanitarian emergencies.
Australian students stated poor clinical learning experiences during training and the perception that career opportunities may be limited were significant impediments to rural service.
Research conducted in both developing and developed countries has identified social and economic barriers as well as health system factors as impediments to accessing HCT services (2, 4).
Recent surveys have highlighted significant impediments to delivering adequate services in the PHCCs, including poor organisation and shortage of manpower and medications [ 28, 29].
Quotron, for its part, maintains that the relationship with Citicorp will not be an impediment to its services, according to John Foley, a spokesman.
