http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/sickle-cell Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:06:16 -0400 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:06:16 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/839/healthcare-access-implications-and-psychosocial-effects-of-sickle-disease By Kitty Chen - Millman (1993) defines healthcare access as "the timely use of affordable personal health services to achieve the best possible health outcomes," implying that healthcare access involves only access to insurance, patient satisfaction with physicians, and/or patient utilization of preventive health care (p. 5). However, I agree more with Rouse (2004), who uses the term "access" more broadly, such that patient access has two parts. The first part, which has multiple variables, is a patient's ability to be seen by a medical professional, and the second part is the quality of the patient/practitioner... Thu, 19 Dec 2013 04:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/839/healthcare-access-implications-and-psychosocial-effects-of-sickle-disease