"Problems you can live with" versus emergencies: how community members in rural Ethiopia contend with conditions requiring surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

98% of people with surgical conditions living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not receive safe, timely and affordable surgical and anesthesia care. Research exploring barriers to receiving care has tended to be narrow in focus, often facility-based and ignoring the community beliefs, experiences and behaviours that will be an essential component of closing the gap in surgical care. Using qualitative methods, we captured diverse community perspectives in rural Ethiopia: exploring beliefs, perceptions, knowledge and experiences related to surgical conditions, with the overall aim of (re)constructing explanatory models.

Methods

Our study was nested within a community-based survey of surgical conditions conducted in the Butajira Health and Demographic S

SUBMITTER: Negussie H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10874059 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature