Health equality in rurality
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2023-08-31
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For years, the Dutch government has invested in areas that were already doing well, thinking that less prosperous regions would automatically benefit. But this proved to be a wrong. The number of public facilities such as hospitals, general practitioners, schools, and libraries has been decreasing for many years for a variety of reasons, with the result that the distances to these places are increasing. This leads to differences in socioeconomic status, level of education, but can also lead to health disparities. This thesis focuses on the desertification of the acute care chain in the Netherlands.
The study looks at it from four different perspectives: the healthcare chain, autonomous geographical trends, mobility, and government. Data from literature review and interviews with stakeholders painted a picture of the issues and concluded that the system does not work well for everyone.
The government can play a major role in this by creating a place for citizen’s initiatives, the design of a new distribution key for mobility funding, overseeing intersectionality in policy making and to have a “prioritarianistic view” on healthcare and its distribution. All to make sure that every citizen in the country have the same opportunities and to eliminate emerging medical deserts.”
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen