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Table 2 Access to health care dimensions in the 2003 South Africa World Health Survey

From: Health care access dimensions and cervical cancer screening in South Africa: analysis of the world health survey

Health Care Access Dimensions

Definition

WHS Item and Question Number

Affordability

Ability and willingness to pay for health care provider charges

• Health insurance coverage (Q0600)

• Household SES (Q0700)*

Availability

Presence of health care providers and type of health care facilities

• Number of health care providers (Q7002)

• Provider Type: Medical Doctor/Others (i.e. nurses, midwives, traditional healers) (Q7302)

• Government/ Non-government facility (Q7301)

Accessibility

Geographic distance and convenience of travel to health care center

• Travel time (Q7307)

• Travel mode (Q7308)

Accommodation

Perception of adequacy of provider’s operation in terms of skills, supplies or drugs

• Provider skills (Q7304)

• Equipment (Q7305)

Acceptability

Comfort with provider characteristic; Perception of inferior treatment;

• Provider’s gender (Q7303)

• Perceived worse treatment based on sex, social class, or ethnic group (Q7328-7334)

  1. *Household SES was created as a composite variable based on ownership of permanent household assets.