Access to health is defined as the physical accessibility to health facilities, goods, and services and is influenced by social as well as economic factors. The lack of equitable access to health care across the country is the most significant challenge the public health sector faces today. Access to health care is still unequal with barriers preventing it being age-based, economic, ethnic, gender-based, and location-based. While many Americans do not receive adequate health services, the challenges of accessing health care are significantly borne by rural communities and ethnic minorities. Although the right to health states that everybody should have access to health, it does not define access, highlight issues of access, or suggest guarantees
