HSR Journal: Focus on Quality and Outcomes
The June 2017 issue of HSR Journal features papers on quality and outcomes, insurance and payment reform, and access and utilization.
Access to care is a complex topic that includes the study of whether sufficient health care resources exist to meet people’s needs, as well as whether people experience physical, financial or other barriers to those services. Evidence in this area can span from whether a rural community has enough specialists, like cardiologists, to whether people in an urban community have transportation or language barriers that make seeing health care providers more difficult.