Health Care Seeking Behavior in Southwest Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rural and urban populations have disparate socio-demographic and economic characteristics, which have an influence on equity and their health seeking behavior. We examined and compared the health care seeking behavior for perceived morbidity between urban and rural households in Southwest Ethiopia.

Methods

Analytic cross-sectional study was conducted among urban and rural households living in Esera district of Southwest Ethiopia. A random sample of 388 head of households (126 urban and 262 rural) were selected. A pretested and structured questionnaire was used for data collection with face-to-face interview. In addition to descriptive methods, binary logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with health seeking behavior at p value of less than 0.

SUBMITTER: Begashaw B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5023186 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature