Persistent shortfalls in recruited female health workers in Afghanistan, despite a doubling of the hardship allowance for female staff, posed a major obstacle for access of women to health care.
According to the survey, "Unseeing Eyes: Media Coverage and Gender in Latin American Elections," published in 2011 by U.N. Women and the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, women face three obstacles: lack of access to financing; few opportunities to become widely known; and a culture that treats women as second-class citizens.
Regarding the underuse of maternal education programs, midwives emphasized the communication difficulties, specifically the language barrier, as an obstacle to access and use of such programs, as previously described by other authors (27, 28).
The highest obstacle to access is usually a lack of money.
It is not an obstacle to access and use.
Over and above the issues of geographic barriers and quality of care that are part of the long list of determinants of healthcare use [ 1], one of the greatest obstacles to access to care remains people's capacity to pay.
We offer support to disabled people and their carers and families as they try to overcome the plethora of obstacles in the way of accessing access disability benefits.
Direct and indirect costs related to the provision of care have been identified as major obstacles to access to ART, acceptance of ART [33] and adherence to treatment [34], [35].
Nevertheless, despite the great intuitive appeal of the SPO, and the support it provides for access internalism, a dilemmatic argument may amount to an insurmountable obstacle for any form of access internalism (Bergmann 2006).
Girls face many obstacles including poverty, lack of access to education, and cultural barriers which prohibit or restrict their freedom of movement and pursuit of their dreams.
