Utilization of Health Services Provided by Different Health Care Systems and its Relation with Education in a Municipality of Far-Western, Nepal
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Abstract: Educational status of people influence the utilization pattern of health care services provided by different health care systems and there by health & treatment outcome of populations differently. The study was conducted to find out the utilization pattern of health services provided by different health care systems and its relation with educational status of people. A cross sectional descriptive study among 169 respondents were conducted in Bhimdatta Municipality of Kanchanpur District, Nepal in January-April 2016. The result of the study found 47.3%, 14.7%, 78.7% and 53.9% utilization of health care services provided by traditional non-formal, traditional formal, modern private and modern public health care system respectively. Interestingly, higher educated people were utilizing traditional non formal health care services higher than illiterate and less educated. It also revealed that higher the education higher the utilization of modern private health care services and lower the utilization of modern public health care services. The study concluded that higher educated people were more utilizing modern private health care services & even traditional non-formal health care services and illiterate people were more utilizing modern government/public health care services.
Authors and Affiliations
Janak Raj Bhatta, Varid Mala Jain, Neena Gupta, Hari Prasad Kaphle, Dilip Kumar Yadav
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