We are pleased to invite you to:
The Institute of Health and Wellbeing Maurice Bloch Annual Lecture Series
Title: Conceptualising access to healthcare: Candidacy – a revised formulation
Presenter: Dr Jess Potter
Date: Wednesday 27 April 2022
Time: 1-2pm
Chair: Prof Kate O'Donnell
Venue: Webinar - https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/94975523106?pwd=Z1ZEdTA2bWFWU1RoUHFsdEFtUVAzQT09 passcode 922113
Abstract:
Healthcare access is of central importance to early disease detection and treatment thus affecting the health and well-being of individuals and populations. However, researching healthcare access is hampered by lack of a broadly applicable conceptual understanding. In this seminar we will discuss what is meant by 'healthcare access' and consider the methods available to study it. In particular, we will focus on 'candidacy' - a construct derived from a critical interpretive synthesis of literature on health service accessibility for vulnerable groups by Dixon-Woods and colleagues. The authors’ description of how an individual becomes a candidate for care facilitates a complex understanding of healthcare access as a dynamic, contextual, social process. Reviewing literature which has applied candidacy and bringing in analysis of my PhD research exploring migrants' experiences of accessing healthcare in the UK, I draw out an extended and abstracted formulation of candidacy. The empirical data I draw upon includes 14 biographic narrative interviews with migrants and 10 in-depth interviews with health service gatekeepers.
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