Document Type
Report
Abstract
Data on healthcare access barriers are lacking for any location in the state of Alaska. The current project set out to describe the barriers to healthcare access experienced by people living in the rural Homer Area of southcentral Alaska. Of the 124 surveys returned 50 (46%) of the respondents identified cost, lack of specialists, transportation, time, and mistrust/dislike of providers as barriers that had kept them from accessing local heathcare in the previous 12 months. Improving healthcare access for this rural population will require a paradigm shift in how we think about healthcare. Novel approaches to when, where, and how healthcare is delivered will need to be considered if healthcare access is to be improved in the region.
Publication Date
5-1-2016
Recommended Citation
Zatz, Lisa M., "Describing Barriers to Healthcare Access in the Homer Area, Alaska" (2016). Student Projects for Graduate Degrees. 119.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_grad_stuprojects/119
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/6871