Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F17%3A73583836" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/17:73583836 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12913-017-2674-5?site=bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com" target="_blank" >https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12913-017-2674-5?site=bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2674-5" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12913-017-2674-5</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Access to health care for persons with disabilities in rural South Africa
Original language description
Global research suggests that persons with disabilities face barriers when accessing health care services. Yet, information regarding the nature of these barriers, especially in low-income and middle-income countries is sparse. Rural contexts in these countries may present greater barriers than urban contexts, but little is known about access issues in such contexts. There is a paucity of research in South Africa looking at "triple vulnerability" - poverty, disability and rurality. This study explored issues of access to health care for persons with disabilities in an impoverished rural area in South Africa. Methods: The study includes a quantitative survey with interviews with 773 participants in 527 households. Comparisons in terms of access to health care between persons with disabilities and persons with no disabilities were explored. The approach to data analysis included quantitative data analysis using descriptive and inferential statistics. Frequency and cross tabulation, comparing and contrasting the frequency of different phenomena between persons with disabilities and persons with no disabilities, were used. Chi-square tests and Analysis of Variance tests were then incorporated into the analysis. Results: Persons with disabilities have a higher rate of unmet health needs as compared to non-disabled. In rural Madwaleni in South Africa, persons with disabilities faced significantly more barriers to accessing health care compared to persons without disabilities. Barriers increased with disability severity and was reduced with increasing level of education, living in a household without disabled members and with age. Conclusions: This study has shown that access to health care in a rural area in South Africa for persons with disabilities is more of an issue than for persons without disabilities in that they face more barriers. Implications are that we need to look beyond the medical issues of disability and address social and inclusion issues as well.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30304 - Public and environmental health
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
BMC Health Services Research
ISSN
1472-6963
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000415656800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85034443127