The literature also acknowledges long distance to health facilities and transportation difficulties as barriers to accessing services that are supposed to be offered for free [ 10, 47, 48].
Despite high self-rated English language skills in this population, new migrants and the elderly cited communication difficulties as barriers to accessing health services.
Results from this study align with previous research from similar settings which also points out that transportation difficulty remains a barrier to accessing institutional delivery [ 33- 36].
This predominantly, but not entirely, refers to the urban poor, landless rural poor and migrant populations due to their initially poorer health and living conditions, in addition to difficulties accessing public services and welfare.
A 2015 report from REACH and UNHCR found that refugees' primary health concerns were linked to difficulties accessing safe water and sanitation.
Practical limitations prevent the generation of an eQTL data set for human intestinal T cells due to difficulties accessing these populations in large numbers of subjects.
Older patients may be excluded from treatment on the grounds of co-morbidity or functional disability, furthermore, there may also be problems with treatment due to difficulties accessing transport and poor compliance (Bellet et al, 1995).
Beyond information seen as potentially stigmatising (e.g., in relation to sexual or mental health) participants said they worried that health professionals might also make character judgments, such as labelling a patient as ' hypochondriac' or as having social problems, and that this could lead to difficulties accessing appropriate care.
This seems to be related to difficulties in accessing materials, finances and insufficient high school preparation.
Due to difficulties in accessing the study population due to the illegality of crack cocaine use, some of the KIs also played a gatekeeper role (i.e., they provided access to the study participants) [ 18].
