Revisiting the behavioral model and access to medical care: does it matter?

TL;DR: Qualitative inquiry can improve the description and explanation of complex, real-world phenomena pertinent to health services research as they use these methods themselves or collaborate with qualitative researchers from a wide range of disciplines.

TL;DR: This paper explains the comprehensiveness and dynamic nature of this conceptualisation of access to care and identifies relevant determinants that can have an impact on access from a multilevel perspective where factors related to health systems, institutions, organisations and providers are considered with factors at the individual, household, community, and population levels.

TL;DR: The national cost of pain ranges from $560 to $635 billion, larger than the cost of the nation's priority health conditions and the annual cost of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

TL;DR: A structured overview of the literature may help to identify future directions for the crowding research agenda and provide valuable contributions toward better understanding and alleviating the daily crisis.

TL;DR: Indicators are suggested for the measurement of the various relevant aspects of access, with the system and population descriptors seen as process indicators and utilization and satisfaction as outcome indicators in a theoretical model of the access concept.

TL;DR: This book offers PRECEDE (an acronym for predisposing reinforcing and enabling causes in educational diagnosis and evaluation) as a model for health education planning as well as examples of the application of this framework to 2 settings: public schools and patient care.

TL;DR: Guidelines for the clinical practice of medicine have been proposed as the solution to the whole range of current health care problems as discussed by the authors, and their strengths, their limitations, and how they can be used most effectively to benefit health care.