Table 1 Definition of barriers within the model of fit
Form of barrier | Definitions [107] |
|---|---|
Availability | The relationship between the volume or type of existing services and patient volume or type of needs. |
Accessibility | The relationship between the location of health services and the location of the patients. |
Accommodation | The relationship between the manner in which the supply resources are organized to accept patients and the patients’ ability to accommodate to these factors. |
Affordability | The relationship between prices of services and the patients’ ability and willingness to pay for these services. |
Acceptability | The relationship between patients’ attitudes to personal and practice characteristics of existing providers and alternatively, provider perceptions of patients’ characteristics. |