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Informal healthcare sector and marginalized groups: Repeat visits in rural North India
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 7, p e0199380 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The interrelationship between the public and private sectors, and formal and informal healthcare sectors effects market-level service quality, pricing behaviour and referral networks. However, health utilisation analysis of national survey data from many low and middle income countries is constrained by the lack of disaggregated health provider data. This study is concerned with the pattern of repeat outpatient consultations for a single episode of fever from public and private qualified providers and private unqualified providers. Cross-sectional survey data from 1173 adult respondents sampled from three districts within India's most populous state-Uttar Pradesh is analysed. Data was collected during the monsoon season-September to October-in 2012. Regression analysis focuses on the pattern of repeats visits for a single episode of mild-sever fever as the dependent variable. Results show that Women and Muslims in rural north India are more likely to not access healthcare, and if they do, consult with low quality unqualified outpatient healthcare providers. For fever durations of four or more days, men are more likely to access unqualified providers compared to women. Results of the current study supports the literature that women's utilisation of outpatient healthcare for communicable illnesses in LMICs is often less than men. A relative lack of access to household resources explains why fever duration parameter estimates for women and men differ.
- Subjects :
- Male
Cross-sectional study
Economics
Health Care Providers
lcsh:Medicine
Health Care Sector
Fevers
Social Sciences
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Geographical Locations
0302 clinical medicine
Public health surveillance
Health care
Outpatients
Ambulatory Care
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public Health Surveillance
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
050207 economics
Socioeconomics
lcsh:Science
Multidisciplinary
Informal sector
05 social sciences
Geography
Informal Sector
Female
Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health
Research Article
Employment
Asia
Referral
Patients
Health Personnel
India
Jobs
03 medical and health sciences
Signs and Symptoms
Health Economics
Ambulatory care
Diagnostic Medicine
0502 economics and business
Humans
Health Care Policy
business.industry
lcsh:R
Private sector
Health Care
Cross-Sectional Studies
Labor Economics
People and Places
Survey data collection
lcsh:Q
Rural Health Services
Self Report
business
Delivery of Health Care
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....781268725ca4a8ca9495a89d4f38cc7a