primary care physicians' visit services for diabetes management are now widely delivered in china's rural public health care. current studies mainly focus on supply but risk factors from patients' view have not been previously explored. this study aims to present the utilization of rural primary care physicians' visit services for diabetes management in the last 12 months in southwestern china,...

Children in higher income families are less likely than poor children to be without a regular source of health care. However, insurance coverage makes a real difference for poor children in terms of access to health care. Among all poor children under six years of age, 21 percent of those without health insurance had no usual source of care, compared with 4 percent of poor children covered by i...

objective: to ascertain the utilization of the emergency contraception and to evaluate the impact of intervention on acceptability and utilization of emergency contraceptive pills. materials and methods: this community based cross sectional study was carried out by the department of community medicine in the slums of chandigarh. the study sample was chosen by two stage systematic sampling. part...

Background A health system that provides equitable health care is a principal goal in many countries. Measuring horizontal inequity (HI) in health care utilization is important to develop appropriate and equitable public policies, especially policies related to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Design A cross-sectional survey of 1,211 randomly selected households in slum and non-slum areas was ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the potential utility of asking parents about health care utilization as a means of identifying individuals at risk for psychosocial problems. METHOD Parents of 366 children ages 2 to 16 completed questionnaires about their own, their child's, and their family's psychosocial functioning and health care utilization. RESULTS Children and parents with high health care ...