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Table 1 A Priori Framework

From: Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples: A framework synthesis

Stage One: Perceptions of Need and Desire for Health Care

 • Ability to Perceive

 

 • Approachability

 

Stage Two: Health Care Seeking

 • Ability to Seek

 

 • Acceptability

 

Stage Three: Health Care Reaching

 • Ability to Reach

 

 • Availability and Accommodation

 

Stage Four: Health Care Utilisation

 • Ability to Pay

 

 • Affordability

 

Stage Five: Consequences of Accessing Care

 • Ability to Engage

 

 • Appropriateness

 
  1. Findings within each of these five stages were then thematically analysed by one of the authors and an interpretation of the key characteristics developed through a consultative process involving all members of the research team