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The ability, or perceived ability, to reach health services or health facilities in terms of location, timeliness and ease of approach.

The obligation to report or give account of one’s actions, for example, to a governing authority through scrutiny, contract, management and regulation or to an electorate.

Mechanisms that are designed to achieve accountability and representation of community interests at the local, subnational and national levels.

Chronic conditions for which it is possible to prevent acute exacerbations and reduce the need for hospital admission through active primary care, for example, asthma, diabetes and hypertension.

The incidence of illness considered avoidable by health care interventions.

Deaths considered avoidable by health care interventions.