Similarly, in their review of the literature on access, Ansari et al [ 25] identify five dimensions of access: availability, accessibility (e.g. geographic), accommodation (e.g. design), affordability, and acceptability.
In our models, the cost of an individual is associated with two dimensions of access [ 1]: accessibility and availability.
Peters et al. [ 14] in 2008 described four dimensions of access to health services: geographic accessibility, availability, financial accessibility and acceptability.
Key issues were identified and noted and then considered within the dimensions of access framework (availability, affordability, accessibility, accommodation, and acceptability) [ 17].
Important remaining ATM barriers can be identified along all dimensions of access: geographical and financial accessibility, availability, acceptability and quality (Peters et al. 2008).
Subsequently, Guagliardo [ 25] partitioned Penchansky and Thomas' dimensions of access spatially, with availability and accessibility (in a geographic sense) collectively grouped as spatial accessibility, with the remaining factors characterized as aspatial.
In earlier papers, we presented a new framework for the study of access to health care in contexts of livelihood insecurity [ 1], and examined three dimensions of access, namely availability, affordability and accessibility, in the case of fever and mild malaria episodes in rural Tanzania [ 2- 4].
This is especially true as one moves beyond just one measure of access like spatial accessibility to consider the other dimensions of access [ 1].
The existing studies have so far captured the effects of availability and affordability, two key dimensions of access to health care [12].
However, the dimensions of access and the degree to which quality pasture and water points should carry restrictions against agricultural expansion generated much greater debate.
The index concerns four dimensions of access to citizenship; eligibility (residence requirements and jus soli), conditions (language requirements, integration tests, income/job, application fee level), security of status (discretion versus entitlement to naturalisation), and whether dual citizenship is permitted.
