Patient-centred access to health care: conceptualising access at the interface of health systems and populations
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Résumé
BACKGROUND: Access is central to the performance of health care systems around the world. However, access to health care remains a complex notion as exemplified in the variety of interpretations of the concept across authors. The aim of this paper is to suggest a conceptualisation of access to health care describing broad dimensions and determinants that integrate demand and supply-side-factors and enabling the operationalisation of access to health care all along the process of obtaining care and benefiting from the services. METHODS: A synthesis of the published literature on the conceptualisation of access has been performed. The most cited frameworks served as a basis to develop a revised conceptual framework. RESULTS: Here, we view access as the opportunity to identify healthcare needs, to seek healthcare services, to reach, to obtain or use health care services, and to actually have a need for services fulfilled. We conceptualise five dimensions of accessibility: 1) Approachability; 2) Acceptability; 3) Availability and accommodation; 4) Affordability; 5) Appropriateness. In this framework, five corresponding abilities of populations interact with the dimensions of accessibility to generate access. Five corollary dimensions of abilities include: 1) Ability to perceive; 2) Ability to seek; 3) Ability to reach; 4) Ability to pay; and 5) Ability to engage. CONCLUSIONS: This paper explains the comprehensiveness and dynamic nature of this conceptualisation of access to care and identifies relevant determinants that can have an impact on access from a multilevel perspective where factors related to health systems, institutions, organisations and providers are considered with factors at the individual, household, community, and population levels.
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La notice
- Revue
- International Journal for Equity in Health
- Thématique
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Domaine
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance
- Établissements canadiens
- Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec
- Organismes subventionnaires
- Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Santé
- Mots-clés
- Health careVariety (cybernetics)Health services researchConceptual frameworkPopulationPublic relationsBusinessAccommodationHealth policyKnowledge managementSociologyPsychologyMedicineComputer sciencePolitical scienceEconomic growthEnvironmental healthEconomicsSocial science
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