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It is well understood that in low income countries accessibility to healthcare services is the major problem. Accessibility or availability encompasses acceptability and affordability. | |||
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If healthcare services are provided within these settings, oftentimes it is found to be of poor quality. Substandard care or non effective care lends itself to mistrust in healthcare and a decrease in demand for these services. If these services effectiveness is low, there is less opportunity for them to see benefits of receiving care. This in turn does not breed trust among the providers or treatments. (SCI)_FLO) | |||
* <u>Acceptability</u> | |||
People living within these settings may have educational and cultural differences that may prevent them from pursuing healthcare services and/or they may not appreciate the potential health benefits. | |||
* <u>Affordability</u> | |||
When healthcare services are obtainable, are they affordable? | |||
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Introduction[edit | edit source]
Recent estimates by the World Health Organization state that over 1 billion people in the world need rehabilitation services, 80% being from low and middle income countries. Where there is poverty, there is disability, and vice versa as they are inherently linked.[1] Compounding the challenge of poverty in these settings is malnutrition, non potable water, unsanitary conditions and inadequate shelter.[2] In addition, receiving rehabilitation services within these low resource settings can prove to be particularly challenging due to political uncertainty, poverty, corruption, volatile security, lack of professional healthcare training, dysfunctional and/or overwhelmed health system and insufficient roads to access services.[3]
Health Inequalities[edit | edit source]
Health Ineqaulities
Poor people living in low income settings tend to be the least healthy and benefit the most from healthcare. Social factors such as education, income level, gender, ethnicity, place of residence and employment status have a direct correlation on the rate of illness with lower income countries have a higher burden[4].
Health inequalities table
Access to Care[edit | edit source]
It is well understood that in low income countries accessibility to healthcare services is the major problem. Accessibility or availability encompasses acceptability and affordability.
- Availability
If healthcare services are provided within these settings, oftentimes it is found to be of poor quality. Substandard care or non effective care lends itself to mistrust in healthcare and a decrease in demand for these services. If these services effectiveness is low, there is less opportunity for them to see benefits of receiving care. This in turn does not breed trust among the providers or treatments. (SCI)_FLO)
- Acceptability
People living within these settings may have educational and cultural differences that may prevent them from pursuing healthcare services and/or they may not appreciate the potential health benefits.
- Affordability
When healthcare services are obtainable, are they affordable?
Resources[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Bright T, Wallace S, Kuper H. A systematic review of access to rehabilitation for people with disabilities in low-and middle-income countries. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2018 Oct;15(10):2165.
- ↑ Orach D, Garimoi C. Health equity: challenges in low income countries. African health sciences. 2009 Oct 1;9(s2):S49-51.
- ↑ Barth CA. Meeting the needs of people with physical disabilities in crisis settings. Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2019 Dec 1;97(12):790.
- ↑ https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes
