Predicting health services utilization using a score of perceived barriers to medical care: evidence from rural Senegal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ensuring access to healthcare services is a key element to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of "promoting healthy lives and well-being for all" through Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, in the context of low- and middle-income countries, most studies focused on financial protection measured through catastrophic health expenditures (CHE), or on health services utilization among specific populations exhibiting health needs (such as pregnancy or recent sickness).

Methods

This study aims at building an individual score of perceived barriers to medical care (PBMC) in order to predict primary care utilization (or non-utilization). We estimate the score on six items: (1) knowing where to go, (2) getting permission, (3) having money, (4) distance to th

SUBMITTER: Coste M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10018867 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature