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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
arts and humanities
Health care decisions at the household level: Results of a rural health survey in Kenya
Social Science and Medicine, Volume 22, No. 3, Year 1986
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Description
The observed visits to health care providers are an outcome of patients' health care decision-making process. Unlike the visits, this process is not observable. The paper first outlines this process, and then presents patterns of patients' visits to health care providers in a particular rural area in Kenya. The visit patterns are shown to vary greatly according to type of illness and to the stage of the illness. The paper has two main results. The first result is that in the study area, the majority of the patients sought medical treatment outside the 'free' government health care system. The other finding is that for a given illness episode, there is a very high likelihood of a patient consulting more than one provider for advice or treatment. © 1986.
Authors & Co-Authors
Mwabu, Germano Mwige
Kenya, Nairobi
University of Nairobi
Statistics
Citations: 197
Authors: 1
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/0277-9536(86)90129-2
ISSN:
02779536
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative
Study Locations
Kenya