Healthcare utilization during the first two waves of the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa: A cross-sectional household survey.

ABSTRACT: Healthcare utilization surveys contextualize facility-based surveillance data for burden estimates. We describe healthcare utilization in the catchment areas for sentinel site healthcare facilities during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We conducted a cross-sectional healthcare utilization survey in households in three communities from three provinces (KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and North West). Field workers administered structured questionnaires electronically with the household members reporting influenza-like illness (ILI) in the past 30 days or severe respiratory illness (SRI) since March 2020. Multivariable logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with healthcare utilization among individuals that reported illness. From November 2020 through April 2021, w

SUBMITTER: Wolter N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10456221 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature