Older persons experiences of healthcare in rural Burkina Faso: Results of a cross sectional household survey.

ABSTRACT: Ensuring responsive healthcare which meets patient expectations and generates trust is important to increase rates of access and retention. This need is important for aging populations where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a growing cause of morbidity and mortality. We performed a cross-sectional household survey including socio-demographic; morbidities; and patient-reported health system utilization, responsiveness, and quality outcomes in individuals 40 and older in northwestern Burkina Faso. We describe results and use exploratory factor analysis to derive a contextually appropriate grouping of health system responsiveness (HSR) variables. We used linear or logistic regression to explore associations between socio-demographics, morbidities, and the grouped-variable, then between th

SUBMITTER: Goldberg EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021992 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature