{"id":52902,"date":"2020-11-03T09:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T09:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=52902"},"modified":"2022-04-05T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T06:40:40","slug":"access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/access\/","title":{"rendered":"Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the health care system, a person\u2019s ability to obtain health care. Is generally influenced by geographic location of the person or health care providers, social standing, ethnicity, financial status, and psychological and intellectual status.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>An individual&#8217;s for group&#8217;s) ability to obtain medical care. Access has geographic, financial, social, ethnic and psychic components and is thus very difficult to define and measure operationally. Many government health programs have as their goal improving access to care for specific groups or equity of access in the whole population. Access is also a function of the availability of health services, and their acceptability. In practice access, availability and acceptability, which collectively describe the things which determine the care people use, are very hard to differentiate.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The ability or the technique of obtaining data from a specific source by a specific user.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the health care system, a person\u2019s ability to obtain health care. Is generally influenced by geographic location of the person or health care providers, social standing, ethnicity, financial status, and psychological and intellectual status. An individual&#8217;s for group&#8217;s) ability to obtain medical care. 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