Challenges to Healthcare Access Among the Zimbabwean Rural Communities

December 3, 2025

Challenges to Healthcare Access Among the Zimbabwean Rural Communities

Edward Bawa | 2020

Abstract

Access to health care is a fundamental human right as enshrined in the universal health coverage goals and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Efforts and attempts have been made to achieve these goals, but literature and primary research investigations indicate that access to universal health care remains a far-fetched dream and aspiration. Disparity to health care access is highly evident between developed and developing countries. A study of health care access in Zimbabwe as per this research has further revealed access to health care disparities between the rural and urban populace in Zimbabwe. This study established that rural communities have remained marginalized in terms of access to health care. There are various factors documented from primary research carried out from 45 health care consumers and ten health care workers (49% males and 51% females) in five rural areas in Zimbabwe, which are Kwekwe, Goromonzi, Seke Communal, Mazowe, and Gwanda. From the analytical findings, 80% of medical conditions being handled in rural areas are of primary health care, the demand for health care stood at 73%, but only 49% perceived medical clinics as the place for treatment.

Keywords: access to health care, primary health care, leadership, workforce, rebranding

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