If a health service is to succeed it is important to understand how accessible its resources, such as GP services and hospitals, are for the population. In the past, studies on the accessibility of health services attempted to assess flows in terms of physical access, in other words how easy or difficult it was for a person to travel to a health service. But it is also important to consider other types of accessibility:
■ financial accessibility (is the service expensive?)
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