Nonfinancial Barriers to the Receipt of Medical Care
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12399706 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorraine V Klerman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 171-171 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Future of Children (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-8289 • E-ISSN: 1550-1558 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1602568 |
| OpenAlex | W1977083299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Much has been written about financial barriers to health care, but nonfinancial barriers also increase the risk of inadequate health care. Nonfinancial barriers-including legal restrictions, geographic isolation and provider shortages, provider practices and policies, and personal attributes and circumstances--can prevent individuals from obtaining care. Children, adolescents, and women needing family planning or obstetric services are especially vulnerable to these barriers regardless of their ability to purchase care at prevailing market prices. Where individuals face a combination of financial and nonfinancial barriers, access can be severely limited. The author discusses ways to reduce nonfinancial barriers, including modifying laws and regulations, encouraging providers to locate in underserved areas, making providers more user-friendly, offering specialized services for specified populations, increasing patients' information regarding health care services and health maintenance, changing beliefs and attitudes, and establishing special approaches to care for adolescents. Most nonfinancial barriers can and should be addressed immediately without waiting for total reform of the national health care financing system because they will contribute to the likelihood of inadequate health care even if financial barriers are reduced. Recent discussions of the problems Americans face in obtaining medical care have focused on financial barriers, particularly the absence of health insurance. But studies of medical care utilization suggest that nonfinancial barriers also make it difficult for individuals-especially children, adolescents, and women needing family planning or obstetric services-to obtain care. Therefore, failure to make provisions for lowering these nonfinancial barriers will lessen the impact of health programs on these very vulnerable populations.1
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |