Household survey data, time allocation data, and qualitative interviews were used to examine whether households allocate their resources for health care differently between age and gender groups. Households allocated significantly fewer resources to the health care of sick children compared to that of sick adults. In contrast there were no such differences with regard to gender. The underlying ...

Amid widespread shortages of health care workers, the role of community health workers (CHWs) has gathered more attention as a way to make primary health care services more available at the community level. In Uganda, as in many countries, volunteer CHWs could be especially important for extending family planning services to underserved populations in rural areas. In Uganda, the latest Demograp...

─ The mutual health insurance (Mutuelle de Santé) system in Rwanda is one of the most extensive community based health insurance schemes operated in Sub-Saharan Africa covering over 90 per cent of the population. Several studies, so far, have documented the success of the Mutuelle de Santé in addressing the two prime objectives of health insurance in a lowincome setting, namely to increase acce...

In developing countries, health seeking behaviours and health care services utilization patterns have been studied and the determinants have been classified in physical, socio-economic, cultural and political contexts. This paper is based on a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature on the relationship of factors affecting health service utilization and the focus has been on Pakistan. For...

BACKGROUND Existing studies concerning the health care use of homeless people describe higher utilisation rates for hospital-based care and emergency care, and lower rates for primary care by homeless people compared to the general population. Homeless people are importantly hindered and/or steered in their health care use by barriers directly related to the organisation of care. Our goal is to...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To study the influence of the proxy respondent on health interview surveys in children. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Children under the age of 15 years drawn from the general population of Catalonia, Spain. PARTICIPANTS The Catalan Health Interview Survey consisted of a multistage probability sample representative to the population of Catalonia. The sample size w...

PURPOSE Teaching interprofessional (IP) teamwork skills is a goal of interprofessional education. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between IP teamwork skills, attitudes and clinical outcomes in a simulated clinical setting. METHODS One hundred-twenty health professions students (medicine, pharmacy, physician assistant) worked in interprofessional teams to manage a "pa...

BACKGROUND Despite the slight progress made on Antenatal Care (ANC) utilization, skilled delivery care service utilization in Ethiopia is still far-below any acceptable standards. Only 10% of women receive assistance from skilled birth attendants either at home or at health institutions, and as a result the country is recording a high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 676 per 100,000 live birth...

Purpose – Many public health systems have struggled with the dual questions of: why the uptake rate of maternal health (MH) services is low among some subpopulations; and how to raise it. The purpose of this paper is to assess the uptake rate of a new set of MH services in poor rural areas of China. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on the survey responses of women’s represent...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Sri Lanka has been able to achieve low childhood mortality levels at low cost. However, this achievement may have been at the expense of increasing mortality inequalities between socio-economic groups. This study addresses the question whether socio-economic mortality inequalities rise as overall mortality falls by describing socio-economic inequalities in under 5 mortali...