Beyond Barriers in Studying Disparities in Women's Access to Health Services in Ontario, Canada

A Qualitative Metasynthesis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4615073
AutoresJan E Angus (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Jan Angus (University of Toronto), Anthony P Lombardo (Canadian Association on Gerontology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Ruth H Lowndes (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Ruth Lowndes (University of Toronto), Naomi Cechetto (St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Farah Ahmad (0000-0001-9747-1148, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada), Arlene S Bierman (0000-0003-4792-9020, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Año2013
Volumen23
Número4
Páginas476-494
Fecha de publicación2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732312469464
PMID23427078
OpenAlexW2107742841
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas78

Women live within complex and differing social, economic, and environmental circumstances that influence options to seek health care. In this article we report on a metasynthesis of qualitative research concerning access disparities for women in the Canadian province of Ontario, where there is a publicly funded health care system. We took a metastudy approach to analysis of results from 35 relevant qualitative articles to understand the conditions and conceptualizations of women's inequitable access to health care. The articles' authors attributed access disparities to myriad barriers. We focused our analysis on these barriers to understand the contributing social and political forces. We found that four major, sometimes countervailing, forces shaped access to health care: (a) contextual conditions, (b) constraints, (c) barriers, and (d) deterrents. Complex convergences of these forces acted to push, pull, obstruct, and/or repel women as they sought health care, resulting in different patterns of inequitable access

Environmental health · Health equity · Political science · Public health · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Gerontology