Monitoring access barriers to health services in the Americas: a mapping of household surveys.

Conclusions: This study identified tracer indicators that countries in the Americas could use to monitor the population that experience healthcare needs but fail to seek and obtain appropriate healthcare, and what the main barriers are. The surveys identified are well validated and allow the disaggregation of these indicators by equity stratifiers. Given the variability of the methodologies used in these surveys, comparability across countries could be limited. As such, their virtue lies in helping stakeholders compare levels of access barriers over time for a given country or a group of countries. Country buy-in will directly affect the extent to which access barriers data are collected, reported, and used. PMID: 32821258 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Rev Panam Salud Publica Source Type: research