Basic Health and the
Barriers Associated with
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Basic Health Care
• Defined based on organization
• Wellness Philosophy
• Health care as Right or a Privilege?
• Basic health services:
the minimum degree of health care considered to be necessary to
maintain adequate health and protection from disease.
(Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 9th edition. © 2009, Elsevier)
Basic Health Services Package for Iraq
http://applications.emro.who.int/dsaf/libcat/EMROPD_2009_109.pdf
Barriers to Health Care
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Affordability
Availability
Cultural Differences
Individual
Infrastructure
Language
Legal
Racial/Ethic Disparities
“…United Nations declaration of human rights in 1948, health has been
considered to be an intrinsic human right for all regardless of socio-economic
status, gender, religion, sexuality, nationality or ethnic origin; in short, there is
acclamation of health for all” (Gil-Gonzales et al, 2015, p524).
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An umbrella review of the barriers to health care access faced by migrants. Ethnicity
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Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
• Sheikh-Mohammedask, M., MacIntyre, C.R., Wood, N. J., Leask, J., & Isaacs, D. (2006).
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