Access to Healthcare during COVID-19

Núñez, Alicia; Sreeganga, S. D.; Ramaprasad, Arkalgud

doi:10.3390/ijerph18062980

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has also caused widespread disruptions to usual healthcare events, resulting in decreased admissions, imaging evaluations and attendance at emergency departments [2][3][4][5][6][7]. Changes in healthcare utilization due to the pandemic are evident for both the provision of healthcare services (supply) and consumer ability to access those services (demand) [8]. Previous pandemic conditions, such as the Ebola and SARS outbreaks, also resulted in a decline in overall healthcare utilization [9,10].…”

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Experience of Healthcare Access in Australia during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Podubinski

Townsin

Thompson

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Changes in health-seeking behaviours and challenges in accessing care have been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative study examines Australian experiences related to healthcare access during the early months of the pandemic. The study aimed to identify key areas of concern as well as opportunities for services to prevent, manage and treat health concerns when normal access was disrupted. Fifty-nine semi-structured interviews were analysed. Participants were interviewed between August and December in 2020 over telephone or Zoom and were located across Australia. Rapid identification of themes with an audio recordings technique was used to generate themes from the data. Participants described a variety of influences on their health-seeking behaviours, resulting in decisions to delay care or being unable to reach care. Many individuals accessed health services via telehealth and offered a range of perceptions and views on its effectiveness and appropriateness. The findings illustrate that maintenance of health and access to healthcare and psychosocial support were compromised for some individuals, leading to negative impacts on both mental and physical health. This highlights the need to provide mechanisms to facilitate a person’s ability to access care in a timely manner during a pandemic.

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Experience of Healthcare Access in Australia during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Podubinski

Townsin

Thompson

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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“…The increment in the delayed risk during the pandemic period may have potential implications to health service access. In part, this may be loosely related to the delay in accessing health services due to medical care access hesitancy during the pandemic and of other related barriers such as informational/technological resource access [ 9 , 37 ]. Health service providers and managers would then need to consider these factors and other potential mechanisms in order to overcome the barriers to healthcare access in the pandemic-stricken setting.…”

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COVID-19 pandemic modifies temperature and heat-related illness ambulance transport association in Japan: a nationwide observational study

Seposo

Madaniyazi

et al. 2021

Environ Health

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Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, several illnesses were reduced. In Japan, heat-related illnesses were reduced by 22% compared to pre-pandemic period. However, it is uncertain as to what has led to this reduction. Here, we model the association of maximum temperature and heat-related illnesses in the 47 Japanese prefectures. We specifically examined how the exposure and lag associations varied before and during the pandemic. Methods We obtained the summer-specific, daily heat-related illness ambulance transport (HIAT), exposure variable (maximum temperature) and covariate data from relevant data sources. We utilized a stratified (pre-pandemic and pandemic), two-stage approach. In each stratified group, we estimated the 1) prefecture-level association using a quasi-Poisson regression coupled with a distributed lag non-linear model, which was 2) pooled using a random-effects meta-analysis. The difference between pooled pre-pandemic and pandemic associations was examined across the exposure and the lag dimensions. Results A total of 321,655 HIAT cases was recorded in Japan from 2016 to 2020. We found an overall reduction of heat-related risks for HIAT during the pandemic, with a wide range of reduction (10.85 to 57.47%) in the HIAT risk, across exposure levels ranging from 21.69 °C to 36.31 °C. On the contrary, we found an increment in the delayed heat-related risks during the pandemic at Lag 2 (16.33%; 95% CI: 1.00, 33.98%). Conclusion This study provides evidence of the impact of COVID-19, particularly on the possible roles of physical interventions and behavioral changes, in modifying the temperature-health association. These findings would have implications on subsequent policies or heat-related warning strategies in light of ongoing or future pandemics.

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“…Contact with hospital staff and managers was organised through the Department of Public Health of the city of Almaty and Department of Health of the Almaty oblast. Medical organizations for each region were included with a coverage of 10 % (due to limited time), thus the Department sent a letter to the heads of medical organization in Almaty (18) and in Almaty oblast (7), where asking them to invite their managers and medical staffs to participate in the survey.…”

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Background COVID-19, which dates back to 2019 [12], has led to a change in the current practice of the private health care system in all countries [11,13,16,18]. The pre-paredness for the pandemic challenges of medical and preventive care of each country was different depending on the level of country development [14].

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Impact of Covid-19 on the Activities of Mediumand Small-Size Medical Enterprises in Kazakhstan

Kapanova

Kosherbayeva

Калмаханов

et al. 2021

Ekologiya cheloveka (Human Ecology)

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Access to Healthcare during COVID-19

Cited by 166 publications

References 57 publications

Experience of Healthcare Access in Australia during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Experience of Healthcare Access in Australia during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 pandemic modifies temperature and heat-related illness ambulance transport association in Japan: a nationwide observational study

Impact of Covid-19 on the Activities of Mediumand Small-Size Medical Enterprises in Kazakhstan

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