Access to Healthcare - A Prominent Challenge in Public Health

Among the important public health socioeconomic factors are Income and Social Status, Education, Occupation and Working Conditions, Access to Healthcare, Physical Environment, Social Support Network, Culture, and Community. A review was conducted based on other published articles and existing literature with an aim to identify what are the socioeconomic determinants of public health, in particular, determine the dimensions of access to healthcare determinants and outline strategies available to enhance access to healthcare. The results indicated that countries can adopt ten (10) key improvement strategies of public health that can support answering this main research question ‘How can Access to Healthcare socioeconomic determinants be improved?’