Primary care access and feasibility of Spatial Accessibility Index (SAI) in assessing primary care in rural Sri Lanka
Parami Abeyrathna,
Suneth Buddhika Agampodi,
Manjula Weerasinghe
et al.
Abstract:Despite decades of global health efforts and policies, inequitable access to primary care in low and middle-income countries remains an ongoing challenge. This study assessed accessibility to curative sector-primary healthcare services in the Anuradhapura district of Sri Lanka in 2020 and 2021. In this study, we included both private and state-owned primary care facilities (PCF) and their corresponding primary care doctors (PCD), covering both allopathic and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practic… Show more
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