Global campaign against AIDS: towards an inter-sectoral focus on health and mobility

GUTIÉRREZ, ANDREA

London

Otro; IFRTD Opinions Fair; 2008

IFRTD

The ´three delays model´ is applicable to emergency journeys but not to journeys for healthcare where a single visit to the doctor cannot resolve the problem. If, in considering the impact of mobility on access to healthcare, we think of one journey between two places, some relevant information will have been lost. We will have an over simplified view of a complex problem. Access to healthcare needs to be evaluated in terms of healthcare services as a whole (having tests analysed, receiving medication etc) and not just in terms of access to places. That approach is inadequate, especially in cases where long term treatment or periodic check-ups are neccessary (as with HIV/AIDS or pregnancy). The Argentinian team of the Mobility and Health Network are developing a model to gather evidence on the impact of travelling on access to public healthcare for pregnant adolescents in the outskirts of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region (BAMR).