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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"care-seeking behaviour"”.
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Factors influencing malaria care seeking behaviour in two Ghanaian communities : formal versus informal malaria care
… of household’s reliance on the informal malaria care sector in two Ghanaians communities. The secondary objective wass to inform policy-makers and planners, especially from the public healthcare sector, on supply side issues that are likely to influence the current malaria care seeking patterns.
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Demographic and socio-economic factors influencing medical care-seeking behaviour among people who experienced mental health issues in Namibia
… and socio-economic factors influence the medical-care seeking behaviours of people who experienced mental health issues in Namibia. The study identifies geographically diverse populations in Namibia through the secondary data collected from the 2013 Namibia Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) to …
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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
… 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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Social capital, trust in institutions, discrimination and self-rated health. An epidemiological study in southern Sweden.
… between institutional trust in the health care system, political trust in the Riksdag (the Swedish parliament) and anticipation of discrimination, on the one hand, and self-rated health, on the other, adjusting for generalized (horizontal) trust in other people as a confounder. The 2000 …
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The ‘fear factor’ : Nigerian women and practitioners’ views on the factors affecting attendance in mammography screening
… conducted. The study was guided by the theory of care seeking behaviour, and participants were questioned through semi-structured interviews and focus group guides. A conventional content analysis method was used to analyse the information gathered from the participants. Results have shown that …
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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
… educational performance and (ii) rural health care seeking behaviour. In addition, a series of bivariate analysis were performed to investigate the trade-offs between school attendance and (i) farm tasks and (ii) water collection. The main contribution of this thesis is in Chapters Six, Seven …
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Assessment of the knowledge and perceptions about tuberculosis among primary school children in NTCHEU district, Malawi
… about the disease can influence care seeking behaviour and adherence to treatment. Like in other countries, studies in Malawi have been conducted to assess knowledge and attitudes regarding TB in adults. Some studies have even assessed the association between knowledge, attitudes …
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Multiple levels of influence affecting the utilisation of adult asthma services in the private sector in Khartoum
… 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 constraints of …
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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
… data, which included routine interviews with the caregivers, together with social and medical data collated by the Child Death Review, to describe the cause of death, the socio-demographic profile, and the routine and prior-to-death health service usage. Dimensions of health service access …