Health Services Accessibility
"Health Services Accessibility" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.
| Descriptor ID |
D006297
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.374.350 N05.300.430
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Services Accessibility- Health Services Accessibility
- Availability of Health Services
- Health Services Availability
- Accessibility, Health Services
- Access to Health Care
- Accessibility of Health Services
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Services Accessibility" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2015 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
| 2016 | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| 2017 | 153 | 96 | 249 |
| 2018 | 136 | 93 | 229 |
| 2019 | 53 | 37 | 90 |
| 2020 | 147 | 125 | 272 |
| 2021 | 86 | 81 | 167 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in Profiles.
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COVID-19's impact on primary care and related mitigation strategies: A scoping review. Eur J Gen Pract. 2021 Dec; 27(1):166-175.
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Effects of the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with colorectal cancer: what has really changed in the outcomes? Br J Surg. 2021 11 11; 108(11):e365-e366.
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Incorporating broadband durability in measuring geographic access to health care in the era of telehealth: A case example of the 2-step virtual catchment area (2SVCA) Method. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 10 12; 28(11):2526-2530.
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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family planning services. Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2021 10 01; 33(5):425-430.
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Disparities in Technology and Broadband Internet Access Across Rurality: Implications for Health and Education. Fam Community Health. 2021 Oct-Dec 01; 44(4):257-265.
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COVID-19 in Canada: Experience and Response to Waves 2 and 3. JAMA. 2021 Sep 28; 326(12):1145-1146.
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Inequities in the Geographic Accessibility of COVID-19 Biomedical Therapeutic Trials in the United States. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 11; 36(11):3650-3653.
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Stakeholder efforts to mitigate antiretroviral therapy interruption among people living with HIV during the COVID-19 pandemic in China: a qualitative study. J Int AIDS Soc. 2021 09; 24(9):e25781.
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The global burden of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in children less than 5 years of age: Implications for COVID-19 vaccination. How can we do better? Allergy Asthma Proc. 2021 09 01; 42(5):378-385.
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Lessons on COVID-19 from Indigenous and remote communities of the Arctic. Nat Med. 2021 09; 27(9):1491-1492.