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.

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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
MeSH Number(s)	N04.590.374.350 N05.300.430
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 Health Services Geographic Accessibility Health Services Geographic Accessibility Program Accessibility Program Accessibility Accessibility, Program Contraceptive Availability Contraceptive Availability Availability, Contraceptive

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Health Services Accessibility".

Health Care [N]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Patient Care Management [N04.590]
Delivery of Health Care [N04.590.374]
Health Services Accessibility [N04.590.374.350]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Health Services Accessibility [N05.300.430]

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Health Services Accessibility".

Health Services Accessibility
Health Equity

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Bar chart showing 548 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 39 publications in 2024

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2000	1	2	3
2001	2	2	4
2002	8	3	11
2003	7	6	13
2004	11	14	25
2005	14	8	22
2006	13	5	18
2007	23	6	29
2008	9	17	26
2009	20	11	31
2010	6	9	15
2011	10	16	26
2012	11	8	19
2013	8	19	27
2014	9	16	25
2015	12	11	23
2016	6	10	16
2017	16	11	27
2018	15	8	23
2019	10	6	16
2020	9	22	31
2021	8	11	19
2022	2	17	19
2023	4	7	11
2024	15	24	39
2025	14	16	30

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Services Accessibility" by people in Profiles.

Thind BS, Maddalena M, Baqai W, Frencher SK, Jih WW. Evaluating the Impact of an eConsult Platform on Specialty Care Access for Medicaid Patients. J Am Board Fam Med. 2025 Sep 15; 38(3):592-598.

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Jaramillo J, Rodriguez-Diaz CE. A Call to Center Latino Members of Sexual Minority Groups and Strengthen the US HIV Response. JAMA Health Forum. 2025 Sep 05; 6(9):e253234.

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Barr EA, Lambert CC, Picou B, Chandler R, Beach R. Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Position on Breastfeeding and Chestfeeding: Ensuring Equity, Autonomy, Access, and Respect in HIV-Related Infant Feeding Decisions. J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2025 Nov-Dec 01; 36(6):690-692.

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Santos J, Baier V, Hunter A, Politt A, Bordeaux S, Sears G, Wheeler D, Baldwin J, Alexander SC, Hubach RD. Barriers to HIV/STI Services and Service Access Preferences Among Rural Sexual Minority Men and Native American Men in Oklahoma. AIDS Educ Prev. 2025 Aug; 37(4):260-272.

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Allen DC, Rabionet SE, Dale SK, Popovici I. What Is the Effect of Medicaid Expansions on Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention Use among Women? AIDS Behav. 2025 Dec; 29(12):3916-3930.

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Allen DC, Rabionet SE, Dale SK, Zorrilla CD, Silva-Suarez G, Popovici I. Using epidemiological data to explore the impact of mental health and substance use disorder treatment facilities and family planning clinic availability on pre-exposure prophylaxis use for women in the U.S. AIDS Care. 2025 Aug; 37(8):1271-1282.

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Dunn MR, Niu H, Li D, Emerson MA, Thompson CA, Nichols HB, Roberson ML, Wheeler SB, Hyslop T, Elston Lafata J, Troester MA. Applying a Novel Measure of Community-Level Healthcare Access to Assess Breast Cancer Care Timeliness. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2025 Jul 01; 34(7):1199-1209.

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Luo A, Naamaoui M, Soliman A, Obtel M, Kaikani W, Charaka H, Nejjari C, Khalis M. Challenges to women's cancer control in Morocco: a qualitative study of lay advisors and civil society perspectives. Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2025 Jun 16; 26:e47.

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Tonmon TT, Sajib MRUZ, Hossain L, Hasan K, Mahmood HR, Ether S, Hasan AMR, Sayeed A, Hassan AKMM, Murshid HB, Jabeen S, Azrin F, Akter E, Huda FA, Hoque DME, Zaman S, Raghuvanshi VS, El Arifeen S, Rahman AE, Hassan ASM, Ahmed A. Welcoming pregnant women: introducing navigation and support services in a secondary health facility in Bangladesh. J Glob Health. 2025 Jun 06; 15:04097.

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Mobley EM, Wolfson JA, Levine J, Ji L, Ramakrishnan S, Nightingale CL, Dressler EV, Kittel C, Freyer DR, Sugalski AJ, Prasad PK, Bhutada JS, Murphy K, Kyono W, Roth ME, Parsons SK, Beauchemin MP. Fertility Preservation Services for Adolescents and Young Adults: 2022 National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program Landscape Assessment. JCO Oncol Pract. 2026 Jan; 22(1):112-121.

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