Access to Public Health Services and Challenges to Healthcare Management
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2025 | Viewed by 1321
Special Issue Editors
Interests: public health; access to public health services; healthcare management; health technology assessment; health economic analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we present this Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, contributing discussions and reflections on “Access to Public Health Services and Challenges to Healthcare Management”.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the health system needs to offer preventive, promotive, curative, and rehabilitative interventions through a combination of public health actions to the population. It is essential to reinforce that the actions of the health system should be responsive and financially fair while treating people respectfully. Additionally, a health system needs staff, funds, information, and overall guidance and direction to function. The WHO considers that few countries have systems that can monitor service delivery and that data on population access to essential services are limited. In this context, it is indispensable for countries to develop strategies to better assess aspects such as the accessibility and quality of health services offered to the population, to contribute to health monitoring and the planning process in the healthcare management scenario.
In this Special Issue, we aim to collect contributions that investigate the perceptions, evaluations, and analyses associated with access to public health services. We look forward to receiving insightful contributions, both qualitative and quantitative studies, regarding emerging issues in social medicine and healthcare management. We strongly encourage the submission of papers from middle- and low-income countries, especially those with a public health system, to better demonstrate the various challenges in healthcare management.
Dr. Isabella Piassi Dias Godói
Dr. Carlos Podalirio Borges de Almeida
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- access to public health services
- quality of public health services
- social control
- healthcare management
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