Accessibility Basics
This term describes how easy it is to get a product or service.
What is Accessibility?
Give one example of a product that enhances health.
What are medicine, healthy food, clean water?
Name one health service.
What is a hospital, clinic, or school nurse?
This is the most common barrier to healthcare access.
What is cost?
In U.S. history, hospitals were once separated by this policy.
What is segregation?
Name one factor that affects accessibility.
What is cost, location, or availability?
This product helps prevent diseases like polio or measles.
What is a vaccine?
This service supports mental and emotional health.
What is counseling and mental health services?
Living far from hospitals is a problem mostly for these areas.
What is Rural Areas?
This 1950s medical breakthrough was not equally accessible at first.
What is the Polio Vaccine?
True or False: Accessibility is the same for everyone.
What is false?
Why is clean drinking water considered a health product?
What is it prevents disease and supports basic health?
Why are school nurses important for accessibility?
This barrier occurs when people are treated unfairly because of race or income.
What is discrimination?
What is a “food desert”?
What is an area with limited access to healthy food?
Accessibility can differ based on income, race, or this factor.
What is location?
This can limit access to health products like medicine.
What is high cost?
This modern service allows patients to see doctors online.
What is telemedicine?
Why does lack of information act as a barrier?
What is people may not know services exist or how to use them?
How is telemedicine helping improve accessibility today?
Why might two people living in the same city still have different access to healthcare?
what are differences in income, discrimination, insurance, or information?
How can lack of health products affect life expectancy?
What is an increase in illnesses and early death?
How can transportation affect access to health services?
What is it can prevent someone from reaching care?
Explain how multiple barriers can affect one person at the same time.
What is cost, distance, and discrimination can overlap?
Why is healthcare access considered a civil rights issue by some people?
What is it affects equality, opportunity, and quality of life?