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Figure 3.7Percentage of women who reported difficulties in accessing health care, by wealth quintile, 2010-2013Women, particularly those from lower-income households, face major barriers to accessing health care1009080706050403020100EthiopiaPeruBolivia, Plurinational State ofTimor-LesteHaitiDem. Rep. of the CongoPer centAlbaniaNepalCambodiaHondurasEgyptRepublic of MoldovaPakistanJordanMozambiqueSenegalPhilippinesTajikistanMoroccoKyrgyzstanIndiaIndonesiaBangladeshLowest wealth quintile Highest wealth quintile AverageSource: ICF International 2015.Note: Data refer to the most recent available during the period specified. The Demographic and Health Surveys ask survey respondents the following question: Many different factors canprevent women from getting medical advice or treatment for themselves. When you are sick and want to get medical advice or treatment, is each of the following a big problem or not?Getting permission to go to the doctor? Getting money needed for advice or treatment? The distance to the health facility? Not wanting to go alone? The data included in the figure capturethe percentage of women who reported at least one of these problems.of health providers may also keep women fromconsulting health services. 150Efforts to extend coverage and ensure affordabilityof health care are critical to address financialbarriers to women’s enjoyment of the right tohealth. Recently, many governments have begunto look at options to make health care moreaffordable, and the implications of different fundingmodalities for health services for gender equalityare reviewed below. But achieving substantiveequality in health also requires improvements inthe quality of services as well as broader attitudinaland institutional change to address stereotyping,stigma and violence head-on. The sectiontherefore goes on to examines how the deliveryof health care can be transformed to enable allwomen and girls’ to have access to services, toaddress their specific health needs and to givethem greater voice in the health system.