Health Services Accessibility
"Health Services Accessibility" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.
| Descriptor ID |
D006297
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.590.374.350 N05.300.430
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Services Accessibility- Health Services Accessibility
- Availability of Health Services
- Health Services Availability
- Accessibility, Health Services
- Access to Health Care
- Accessibility of Health Services
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Services Accessibility" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2000 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2001 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2005 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2007 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2009 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2010 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2011 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2013 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
| 2014 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2015 | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2017 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2018 | 12 | 4 | 16 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2020 | 14 | 9 | 23 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in Profiles.
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Patient Insights to Improve Naloxone Access and Decision Support. Perm J. 2026 06 15; 30(2):151-157.
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Barriers and Facilitators to Screening for Anxiety and Intimate Partner Violence. J Am Board Fam Med. 2026 Feb 27; 38(6):1049-1063.
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Barriers and facilitators to behavioral health follow-up in children screened and referred for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). BMC Health Serv Res. 2026 Jan 03; 26(1):36.
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Planning for implementation scale-up of a medication for opioid use disorder program across rural Colorado: Ensuring fit to context. Eval Program Plann. 2026 Apr; 115:102749.
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Utilizing telemedicine to enhance access to Gender Expression Care for transgender and gender diverse individuals. Sci Rep. 2025 Nov 25; 15(1):41800.
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Building Equitable Partnerships Between Industry Sponsors and Indigenous Communities to Enhance Engagement in Clinical Trials. Clin Ther. 2025 Nov; 47(11):981-991.
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Design of a cluster randomized multi-level intervention to decrease barriers to minority cancer patient referral and enrollment to cancer clinical trials: The ACT WONDER2S study. Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 Nov; 158:108096.
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Telemedicine and Primary Care Access: A Cross-sectional Observational Study of Patients Using Only Telemedicine. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Nov; 40(14):3363-3370.
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Effect of pre-end-stage kidney disease nephrology care on the association between neighborhood poverty and referral for kidney transplantation among patients with end-stage kidney disease. J Clin Epidemiol. 2025 Sep; 185:111878.
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Health equity in the era of large language models. Am J Manag Care. 2025 Mar; 31(3):112-117.