Barriers and facilitators to healthcare access for children with disabilities in low and middle income sub-Saharan African countries: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Children with disabilities (CwDs) make up around 150 million of the billion people with disabilities in the world. The Sub-Saharan African countries have a large number of CwDs who have limited access to healthcare and rehabilitation care. This, combined with chronic poverty, low education, and inadequately trained healthcare professionals, substantially lowers these children's quality of life. The main objective of this scoping review was to discover the barriers and facilitators to healthcare access for CwDs in selected low to middle income Sub-Saharan African countries. As African countries significantly vary in socioeconomic status, we only focused on countries in Sub-Saharan Africa who allocated less than $50/person to healthcare. METHODS:A broad and iterative search strate

SUBMITTER: Adugna MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6945633 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature