In some countries the low rate of skilled attendance is not because there are insufficient providers, but because of insufficient posts in the public sector to employ all available healthcare providers, even if they are known to have the necessary skills.
13 14 Communication barriers in the patient provider encounter and between providers, insufficient support for providers in screening for rehabilitation needs, suboptimal care coordination, lack of clear delineation of responsibility among providers and a mismatch between available services and patient preferences are just some of these explanatory factors.
At healthcare facilities, a lack of triage, insufficient trained providers and scarce resources prohibit the delivery of effective emergency care, and leave community members dissatisfied.
For supply side constraints, insufficient healthcare providers and unequal distribution of health professionals have remained significant problems in the ASEAN countries (Table 4).
This has included rural areas or locations where there is an insufficient number of providers for the amount of vaccine that needs to be distributed.
Many women and girls face serious legal or financial obstacles to accessing safe abortion services because of burdensome regulations, lack of providers, insufficient funding, or political opposition.
On the other hand, training opportunities were described as sporadic and frequently subject to cancellation due to insufficient interest from providers.
Russian public health experts attribute the causes of malnutrition in Russia to the limited public awareness of healthy eating habits and to insufficient training of providers in delivering adequate nutritional counseling.
Multiple factors contribute to such poor health indicators, including poor health infrastructure, inadequate access to skilled service providers, insufficient access to emergency obstetric and newborn care services, and poor quality of health care.
Long waiting time, limited hours of operation and insufficient numbers of providers also play a role in the limited accessibility of the CBHI benefit package, particularly for low-income clients who cannot afford to lose time waiting for services.
