Accessibility Hypotheses: Use Of Maternal And Child Health Care

The second position is based on the “accessibility hypotheses”. This suggests that maternal and child health care use is equally influenced by the availability of health facilities and means to access the facilities. Fosu (1994) also argued that the enabling factors reflect that some families, even if predisposed to use health services, must have some means to obtain them, i.e. income, access, and availability of health services. Several studies have documented that accessibility is a major determinant of greater use of health facilities and improvement in health conditions (Stock 1983; Okafor 1984; Chakraborty et al. 2003; Tsawe & Susuman 2014).
The third perspective suggests that the use of maternal and child health services can be influenced