Assessing the Accessibility of Healthcare Services in Barangay San Jose, San

Luis, Pampanga

Introduction

Access to healthcare is the access of all the resident or in a community service ,provider or
institution appropriate to the proportion of their needs. It is a critical achieving and hard to catch
any specific group of community especially because this place is not immediately or sometimes
not reachable by the official people in a city. In addition, finding areas with limited spatial
accessibility allows planners to see the effect of opening, relocating, closing, or modifying the
services of existing facilities. The degree of accessibility of health care institutions is one of the
most significant indicators for measuring the efficiency of the health care system (Gatrell and
Elliott 2009).

The access of public to health care institution as could be seriously restricted by distance
(Black and al 2004). In general, longer the distance to health care facilities higher the risk of
fatalities (Jones et al 1998; Hare and Barcus 2007)The study of accessibility to health care has
long been of interest to medical geographers and other social scientists (Quah 1977; Joseph
and Phillips 1984). Public provision of health care services is among the biggest problems in
developing countries and the accessibility of health care institutions is one of the most important
factors in constituting healthy communities. Potential access is considered to be a function of
the geographic distribution and supply of healthcare services, while realized access refers to
actual utilization rates (Joseph & Phillips, 1984).

Health researchers often opt for simpler metrics of accessibility such as the distance to the
nearest service, service-to-population ratios, or service areas (Apparicio, Abdelmajid, Riva, &
Shearmur, 2008).Accessibility metrics have often been employed to measure the equity of the
spatial distribution of opportunities (Golub & Martens, 2014; Grengs, 2015; Guzman, Oviedo, &
Rivera, 2017). However, most health studies measuring access to healthcare facilities have paid
little attention to how both spatial and non-spatial characteristics, such as socio-economic
status, relate to access levels (Bissonnette, Wilson, Bell, & Shah, 2012). The service-to-
population ratio, on the other hand, does consider demand, but gives no indication as to how far
individuals would need to travel to reach a service and is often calculated via aggregated areal
units that are too large to conclude meaningful results (Guagliardo, 2004; Love & Lindquist,
1995).
 Conceptual framework

Output
Input

1.Identifying the factors

Process Assessing the
according to locks of
accessibility of health
access of health care
care services in Barangay
services in barangay
San Jose, San Luis,
San Jose.
Pampanga
2.
 Statement of the problem

This study aims to assist the accessibility of health care services in barangay San Jose.

Specifically, it sought to answer the following questions:

1. Does lack of access of health care services affects the residents of Barangay San
Jose, San Luis , Pampanga?
2. What are the possible way to provide an accessible things to gain a health care
services in Barangay San Jose, San Luis,Pampanga?
3. Is there any gaps in providing an accessible things in promoting healthcare services
in Barangay San Jose.San Luis Pampanga?
4. What are the benefits or outcome in assessing the accessibility of health care
services in Barangay San Jose,San Luis Pampanga?

Scope and Delimitation

This study focuses on the accessibility of health care services in Barangay San Jose.
This study also delimited on specific community such as the Barangay San Jose with 30
respondents within the Barangay healthcare workers, Barangay official, and Barangay residents
. The objective of this study is to assess the needs or the availability of things that can be
needed to healthcare services and the accessibility of healthcare services in Barangay San
Jose, San Luis , Pampanga.

Significance of the study

This study hopefully shall be of benefit to the following:

Community- the direct recipients of the output of this research is the community this will we
know on how things provided on health care services will apply there daily lives.

Barangay Officials- this beneficial to the Barangay official for they are whom diligently providing
that accessible to health care services on a Barangay, also witness on how the accessibility of
healthcare services will apply to the residents in barangay.

Families - this will also

Hypothesis

There is significant relationship between the accessibility of healthcare services in Barangay