TY - JOUR T1 - Provider-generated barriers to health services access and quality still persist JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 294 LP - 294 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00162 VL - 1 IS - 3 A2 - , Y1 - 2013/11/01 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/1/3/294.abstract N2 - Barriers to access and quality, such as long waits, disrespectful provider behavior, and medical barriers, continue to constrain health programs. Reducing them further requires a multipronged management approach that includes understanding and addressing provider behavior and the real problems providers face. Barriers to access and to the closely related issues of quality have been long recognized as important health program constraints.1 Such barriers have been addressed by a number of initiatives, including by improving guidelines, standards, and norms, and by various quality improvement approaches. Two articles in this issue of GHSP—Tumlinson et al. … ER -