Availability and affordability of diabetes healthcare services associated with the frequency of diabetes-related complications
Mehran Alijanzadeh, Sima Hashemipour, Fereshteh Attaran, Samira Saremi, Leila Modarresnia, Hamidreza Ghafelehbashi, Mark D. Griffiths, Zainab Alimoardi · 2024
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Mehran Alijanzadeh and seven co-authors link diabetes care access to complication rates in Iran in this 2024 paper. The survey covered 373 adults with type 2 diabetes at specialist clinics in Qazvin. Access was scored on two sides: how reachable services are, and how affordable. Complications were counted per patient. Patients with better access had fewer complications. Each step up in economic access cut complication frequency by about nine percent; physical access cut it by about thirteen.
Average access scored under eighteen out of thirty, leaving wide room to improve. The authors argue access is not background detail but a treatment variable. A drug unfilled or a clinic unreached does no good. Policy that shortens distance and lowers cost should show up later as fewer damaged eyes, kidneys, and feet. Still, the dose pattern is a signal managers can act on.
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| CREATOR | Mehran Alijanzadeh, Sima Hashemipour, Fereshteh Attaran, Samira Saremi, Leila Modarresnia, Hamidreza Ghafelehbashi, Mark D. Griffiths, Zainab Alimoardi |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |