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Most women perceive barriers to healthcare access, though a wide inter-state variation exists. Facility-level barriers such as the unavailability of drugs and healthcare providers are major concerns to healthcare access. Distance to health facilities continues to be a logistic barrier, along with getting money for treatment at the household level. Illiteracy, non-exposure to mass media, working in the agricultural sector, no access to a bank account and a mobile phone, rural residency, and poor wealth status are significant factors adversely affecting the perceived barriers to healthcare access. The findings recommend strengthening the existing health system and increasing health literacy among poor, less educated, and rural women to reduce disparity in healthcare access.
Pradhan et al. (Thu,) studied this question.