Hospice and Palliative Care - Access for All

Published to coincide with World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2006, this report showcases the success stories of how hospice and palliative care has been provided in the most difficult settings. It also explores how services can be made more accessible and reflects the diversity of our society and the different beliefs and attitudes to care that people have. It focuses on a number of barriers to good care provision including geography, complex needs, culture and perception, and social exclusion

2012 Annual Report: Achieving Access to Health for All Coloradans

This annual report includes: an 'about us' introduction, a letter from the leadership, details of grantmaking activities in the areas of health data and information, health advocacy and policy, health care services and systems, and health and well-being, financial information, and information about the board of trustees and staff of the organization

All-optical membrane InP switch on silicon for access applications

Using an integrated membrane switch on SOI, optical clock distribution is achieved while all-optical switching of datapackets is maintained. Transmission through 25km SMF is demonstrated with 1.5dB penalty, limited by signal OSNR and pump extinction

Opening Doors to all Candidates: Tips for Ensuring Access for Applicants with Disabilities

[Excerpt] The goal of the hiring process is to attract and identify the individual who has the best mix of skills and attributes for the job available. Ensuring that all qualified individuals can participate in the process is key to achieving this goal. By examining their hiring procedures and implementing some simple steps, employers can widen their pool of potential talent and ensure that they do not miss out when the best person for the job happens to have a disability

Prenatal care: Access for all?

Prenatal care is an essential part of a woman’s pregnancy journey. It ensures that both mother and child are doing well, and helps to locate and diagnose any issues before they become complications. Without regular check ups, mothers will not be aware of life-threatening complications such as preeclampsia or placenta previa. Women in low socioeconomic brackets often do not have good access to prenatal care. Research studies have interviewed women and have stated many times there are no providers in the area where they live and they have to make long trips to see a doctor, which they cannot afford. As a result they will go without prenatal care entirely and do not realize how important that step of pregnancy is. The question then becomes, if education on the importance of prenatal care was made readily available and accessible to all communnities, would the amount of prenatal care visits increase, and would compilations among that population go down? To answer this question would require interventions to help these women. This project pushes to raise awareness for the importance of prenatal visits to these women by methods such as developing a prenatal health campaign to emphasize its importance, and petition for grants and government assistance for these women. Community clinics should be made available for these women to receive prenatal care that is local to their residences such as churches, community centers, and local health departments. After these interventions have been put into place, interviews with these women can be conducted to identify if their prenatal visits have increased and if they feel as though they have more opportunities for prenatal care

Access for all and for how long?

The paper presents a case study of the “Twitter Revolution” that took place in Moldova in April 2009. The fight for democracy in a small country with a totalitarian history received global attention also because it was portrayed as an event in which Web 2.0 tools were empowering the citizens. Online commentary through Twitter posts (that included video recordings and images of the protests) were made in tandem with the onsite events. Blogs and youtube.com provided additional venues for commentary and access for individuals following the events. However, there is no process or device to effectively gather the rich contextual information generated by these online sources in a structural way and save it for future research use. Many of the electronic documents that circulated, such as some video recordings from the events and thousands of twitter messages, cannot be accessed online anymore

Broadband Internet Access: Equal Access and Opportunity for All

The internet has become the primary way households gain access to daily services, including education, healthcare, employment resources, and transportation. In 2016, the United Nations General Assembly designated internet access a basic human right. Millions of Americans are living in the digital divide. Low-wage workers, people of color, children, older adults, individuals with disabilities, the less educated, rural residents, and limited English-speaking households are among those most affected by lack of broadband access in Minnesota. Those without access experience social and economic inequalities. The COVID-19 pandemic heightened the need for broadband access. Minnesota must end the digital divide that limits access and opportunities. Minnesota must invest public resources to create universal access to high speed broadband