Improving the Accessibility of Frontline Services : For Equitable Care Amidst Rapid Growth and Urbanization

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: CHRONIC DISEASE;    INFECTIOUS DISEASE;    BURDEN OF DISEASE;    UNDETECTED CASES;    MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS;   

RP-ID  :  137687

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

In rapidly growing urban centers, mostresidents are near health services. Nonetheless, a range ofsocial and financial constraints can deter individuals andfamilies from seeking care, preventing timely diagnosis ofchronic and infectious conditions. Creative and sensitiveoutreach strategies, new approaches to proactive casefinding, and progressive payment models are needed tosurmount social and economic cleavages that drive persistentinequities, and to improve the accessibility of timelydiagnosis and high-quality care in urban and peri-urban communities.