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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Health care seeking"”.
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… illness places a severe burden on Zambia’s health sector and the country’s economic development. Despite being curable when treatment is sought appropriately, utilization of professional health care services amongst people suffering from malaria illness generally continues to be low in …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… illness places a severe burden on Zambia’s health sector and the country’s economic development. Despite being curable when treatment is sought appropriately, utilization of professional health care services amongst people suffering from malaria illness generally continues to be low in …
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Utilization of health and medical services: factors influencing health care seeking behaviour and unmet health needs in rural areas of Kenya
There are many factors that influence health and health care seeking. Although many of these factors are similar across populations, exactly how they interact and influence the actions of people is often unique to a population in the context of the environment they live in. The current study, a …
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Deployment related mental health care seeking behaviors in the U.S. military and the use of telehealth to mitigate their impacts on access to care
… often require substantial amounts of mental health care, causing surges in demand at military hospitals. These hospitals have difficulty keeping up with demand during the busiest periods. The exact patterns of demand during surges are difficult to measure because the military records …
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Central American refugee claimants’ experiences accessing health care
… claimants' experiences when trying to access health care services. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine from the perspective of the refugee claimants, their experiences accessing health care services in Vancouver. A conceptual framework developed by this researcher guided the …
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Health-promoting Behavior Comparisons of Insured and Uninsured Rural Women
<p>This study explored the relationship between health-promoting behaviors and the health care seeking behavior of rural insured and uninsured women. The study also described the demographic characteristics of these groups. A comparative, descriptive, and non-experimental study design was utilized. …
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Perceptions of young mothers regarding causes of malnutrition in children admitted at selected hospitals in the Vhembe District, of the Limpopo Province
… one of the most challenging and critical public health problem, and it remains one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality among children under the age of 5 years. There is no exception for the Vhembe District. Purpose: The study determined the perceptions of young mothers regarding …
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The role of traditional healers in oral health care in the Bui Division, North West Province, Cameroon
… depend on traditional medicines for their health care needs and about seven per cent of the average household health budget is spent on traditional medicines irrespective of their incomes. The aim of this study was (i) to assess the role of traditional healers (THs) in providing oral care …
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Health service utilisation prior to out-of-hospital natural deaths among children under five in Metro West, Cape Town in 2018: a retrospective analysis of data from the Child Death Review
… because of the amount of child deaths outside of health facilities. Fifty-five percent of under-five deaths occur out-of-hospital in South Africa, with a similar percentage in the Metro West (49-52% in 2010 to 2015). Describing factors that enable or prevent health service usage among natural …
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Pharmaceutical relationships : intersections of illness, fantasy, and capital in the age of direct-to-consumer marketing
… (which address patient advocacy movements and health care seeking and questions of how medical diagnoses can be deployed as social norms), fantasy (which address psychoanalytic conceptions of desire and self, as well as semiotic understandings of consumption), and capital (which address health …
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Factors Related to Delayed Time for HIV Care Among Youth Living with HIV: a Cross-Sectional Analysis of Social Support Networks and Access to Care
… on all youth (N=347) and specifically on those seeking care. Methodology: Historical data were extracted from the baseline dataset of a quasi-experimental prospective study conducted between 1994-1996 of youth living with HIV in four metropolitan cities in the U.S. The sample for this study …
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Factors governing household access to key socio-economic facilities and their influence on education performance and healthcare seeking behaviour in rural communities of Malawi
… in the development of appropriate social and health policy interventions. Moreover, the current literature acknowledges that the lack of accessibility to basic goods and services deepens the isolation of rural households, undermining their opportunities to access socio - economic and basic …
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Enduring "lateness": biomedicalisation and the unfolding of reproductive life, sociality, and antenatal care
The dissertation examines how pregnant women seeking antenatal care at a state facility in the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town conceptualise and experience their pregnancies in relation to the biomedical model that informs state practices of care. I specifically explore the experiences that …
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Maintaining quality of life after prostate cancer diagnosis
… diagnosis could improve the support from health-care professionals in maintaining the men’s quality of life. Sudden, unwelcome and repetitive thoughts about a traumatic event – intrusive thoughts – constitute one factor of post-traumatic stress disorder. Recurrent thoughts of death, not …
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Multiple levels of influence affecting the utilisation of adult asthma services in the private sector in Khartoum
… (IUATLD, 2011, 2018). Sudan has a pluralistic health care system with a strong and varied private sector and a three- tiered public health sector (federal, state and district). Most asthma patients in Sudan seek asthma care in hospital emergency rooms or in the private sector. The main …