title: [Accessibility to health services: theoretical debate on determinants and implications in the public health policy].
abstract: This paper presents the theorical development of accesibility as process and product. The process consists of the elements that converge to meet the objectives of providing medical care in a timely manner. As product is a component of effective care. Accesibility itself is subject to a combination of economic, cultural, social, geographic and contextual aspects. Beyond the right of persons to receive health care, availability of institutions and the means to achieve.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey Campus Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo León, México. diana.sanchez.torres@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Diana Alejandra
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Torres
mesh_terms: D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006303:Health Services, Indigenous / Q000458:organization & administration; D054625:Healthcare Disparities / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D064890:Social Determinants of Health
keywords: Health services accessibility; Indigenous population; Planning and management health policy; Public policy