Sentence examples for marker of access from inspiring English sources
The number of medicines used by children as a marker of access to primary healthcare.
In the NSFG, we also examined women's insurance status as a marker of access to family planning services.
Race may be serving as a marker of access to developmental evaluation services, beyond that captured by maternal education (Mandell et al. 2009).
Demographic characteristics were obtained from the trigger admission and included age, sex, Indigenous status, marital status, socioeconomic status and rurality (as a potential marker of access to hospital care).
It is possible that having private medical insurance, which is a strong marker of access to health care, may better account for knowledge of women's cancer screening and contraception than race/ethnicity or age.
At the baseline interview, participants reported their age, sex, years of education, country of birth, whether or not they had a regular medical doctor (as a marker of access to medical care), smoking status, and any alcohol use.
23 Both are common and primarily elective procedures that have been used as markers of access to outpatient care.
These codes of ACSCs have been validated as markers of access to primary health care in the USA and Australia [ 7, 8].
In contrast, the geographic distribution of pesticide suicides in relation to markers of access to pesticides has received little attention in the research literature, although previous studies have documented substantial area variations in pesticide poisoning mortality in the US [ 9], Sri Lanka [ 10] and South Korea [ 11, 12].
Questionnaire data were supplemented with information about whether or not the GP was based in a metropolitan area with a medical school - a potential marker of ease of access to educational opportunities.
We hypothesized that area-based markers of poor access to care would be directly correlated with the local incidence of ESRD attributed to diabetes but would not be related to the local incidence of ESRD attributed to ADPCKD.
