IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/halshs-00733353.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Se déplacer pour se soigner. Pratiques et obstacles à Conakry et Douala

Author

Listed:
  • Lourdes Diaz Olvera

    (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Didier Plat

    (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Pascal Pochet

    (LET - Laboratoire d'économie des transports - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - ENTPE - École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Travel for access to health care services. User habits and barriers in Conakry and Douala. - Sub-Saharan African cities are believed to be better served than villages with regard to access to health care. Yet differences at the intra-urban level have seldom been analyzed. Fundamental questions remain as to the extent to which, in a context of urban poverty, access by Africans to health care is affected both by factors intrinsic to the health sector itself as well as by the spatial distribution of health care providers and accessibility conditions. The aim of this paper is to analyze accessibility to health care services. Empirical evidence from two household travel surveys and interviews carried out in 2003 in Conakry and Douala suggests that accessibility barriers reinforce the negative effects of deficiencies specific to the health care sector. This situation is even more problematic in the case of peripheral areas, with their limited access to public transport and to the services and infrastructures characteristic of larger urban communities.

Suggested Citation

  • Lourdes Diaz Olvera & Didier Plat & Pascal Pochet, 2011. "Se déplacer pour se soigner. Pratiques et obstacles à Conakry et Douala," Post-Print halshs-00733353, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00733353
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00733353
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://shs.hal.science/halshs-00733353/document
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Lourdes Diaz Olvera & Didier Plat & Pascal Pochet, 1998. "Villes africaines au quotidien," Post-Print halshs-00139419, HAL.
    2. Develay, A. & Sauerborn, R. & Diesfeld, H. J., 1996. "Utilization of health care in an African urban area: Results from a household survey in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 43(11), pages 1611-1619, December.
    3. Lourdes Diaz Olvera & Didier Plat & Pascal Pochet, 2008. "Household transport expenditure in Sub-Saharan African cities: measurement and analysis," Post-Print halshs-00264231, HAL.
    4. E Talen & L Anselin, 1998. "Assessing Spatial Equity: An Evaluation of Measures of Accessibility to Public Playgrounds," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 30(4), pages 595-613, April.
    5. Gauthier, Bernard & Wane, Waly, 2011. "Bypassing health providers: The quest for better price and quality of health care in Chad," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 73(4), pages 540-549, August.
    6. Diaz Olvera, Lourdes & Plat, Didier & Pochet, Pascal, 2008. "Household transport expenditure in Sub-Saharan African cities: measurement and analysis," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 1-13.
    7. Charles Raux & Aurélie Mercier & Nicolas Ovtracht, 2008. "Evaluation économique des politiques de transport et indicateurs d'accessibilité spatiale : l'apport des SIG," Post-Print halshs-00372158, HAL.
    8. Sahn, David E. & Stifel, David C., 2003. "Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goals in Africa," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 23-52, January.
    9. Ridde, Valéry, 2008. ""The problem of the worst-off is dealt with after all other issues": The equity and health policy implementation gap in Burkina Faso," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(6), pages 1368-1378, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Lourdes Diaz Olvera & Didier Plat & Pascal Pochet, 2013. "The puzzle of mobility and access to the city in Sub-Saharan Africa," Post-Print halshs-00861105, HAL.
    2. Diaz Olvera, Lourdes & Plat, Didier & Pochet, Pascal, 2013. "The puzzle of mobility and access to the city in Sub-Saharan Africa," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 56-64.
    3. Agénor, Pierre-Richard & Canuto, Otaviano & da Silva, Luiz Pereira, 2014. "On gender and growth: The role of intergenerational health externalities and women's occupational constraints," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 30(C), pages 132-147.
    4. Setareh Ataian, 2011. "Analysis of households’ urban transportation budget in Tehran [Analyse des dépenses en transport urbain des ménages à Téhéran]," Post-Print halshs-00733368, HAL.
    5. Acheampong, Ransford A. & Siiba, Alhassan, 2018. "Examining the determinants of utility bicycling using a socio-ecological framework: An exploratory study of the Tamale Metropolis in Northern Ghana," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 1-10.
    6. Li, Tiebei & Dodson, Jago & Sipe, Neil, 2015. "Differentiating metropolitan transport disadvantage by mode: Household expenditure on private vehicle fuel and public transport fares in Brisbane, Australia," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 16-25.
    7. Falavigna, Claudio & Hernandez, Diego, 2016. "Assessing inequalities on public transport affordability in two latin American cities: Montevideo (Uruguay) and Córdoba (Argentina)," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 145-155.
    8. Alberts, Anna & Pfeffer, Karin & Baud, Isa, 2016. "Rebuilding women's livelihoods strategies at the city fringe: Agency, spatial practices, and access to transportation from Semmencherry, Chennai," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 142-151.
    9. Kerzhner, Tamara, 2022. "Formalization of East Jerusalem public transport: Mobility, politics and planning," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 105(C).
    10. Borker, Girija, 2024. "Understanding the constraints to women’s use of urban public transport in developing countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
    11. Davies, Julia & Hannah, Corrie & Guido, Zack & Zimmer, Andrew & McCann, Laura & Battersby, Jane & Evans, Tom, 2021. "Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 103(C).
    12. Böhme, Marcus & Thiele, Rainer, 2012. "Is the Informal Sector Constrained from the Demand Side? Evidence for Six West African Capitals," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(7), pages 1369-1381.
    13. Andreasen, Manja Hoppe & Møller-Jensen, Lasse, 2017. "Access to the city: Mobility patterns, transport and accessibility in peripheral settlements of Dar es Salaam," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 20-29.
    14. Nazneen Ferdous & Abdul Pinjari & Chandra Bhat & Ram Pendyala, 2010. "A comprehensive analysis of household transportation expenditures relative to other goods and services: an application to United States consumer expenditure data," Transportation, Springer, vol. 37(3), pages 363-390, May.
    15. Gandelman, Néstor & Serebrisky, Tomás & Suárez-Alemán, Ancor, 2019. "Household spending on transport in Latin America and the Caribbean: A dimension of transport affordability in the region," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 1-1.
    16. Falchetta, G. & Noussan, M. & Hammad, A.T., 2021. "Comparing paratransit in seven major African cities: An accessibility and network analysis," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    17. Nkurunziza, Alphonse & Zuidgeest, Mark & Brussel, Mark & Van Maarseveen, Martin, 2012. "Examining the potential for modal change: Motivators and barriers for bicycle commuting in Dar-es-Salaam," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 249-259.
    18. Manja Hoppe Andreasen & Jytte Agergaard & Lasse Møller-Jensen & Martin Oteng-Ababio & Gerald Albert Baeribameng Yiran, 2022. "Mobility Disruptions in Accra: Recurrent Flooding, Fragile Infrastructure and Climate Change," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-19, October.
    19. Lourdes Diaz Olvera & Didier Plat & Pascal Pochet & Maïdadi Sahabana, 2012. "Motorbike taxis in the "transport crisis" of West and Central African cities," Post-Print halshs-00717909, HAL.
    20. Plyushteva, Anna, 2023. "Affording mobility: Attending to the socio-material affordances of transport un/affordability," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00733353. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.