Exploring country-wide equitable government health care facility access in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural access to health care remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa due to urban bias, social determinants of health, and transportation-related barriers. Health systems in Sub-Saharan Africa often lack equity, leaving disproportionately less health center access for the poorest residents with the highest health care needs. Lack of health care equity in Sub-Saharan Africa has become of increasing concern as countries enter a period of simultaneous high infectious and non-communicable disease burdens, the second of which requires a robust primary care network due to a long continuum of care. Bicycle ownership has been proposed and promoted as one tool to reduce travel-related barriers to health-services among the poor.

Methods

An accessibility analysis was conduc

SUBMITTER: Dowhaniuk N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7814723 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature