Factors associated with men's health facility attendance as clients and caregivers in Malawi: a community-representative survey.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Men have higher rates of morbidity and mortality across nearly all top ten causes of mortality worldwide. Much of this disparity is attributed to men's lower utilization of routine health services; however, little is known about men's general healthcare utilization in sub-Saharan Africa.

Methods

We analyze the responses of 1,116 men in a community-representative survey of men drawn from a multi-staged sample of residents of 36 villages in Malawi to identify factors associated with men's facility attendance in the last 12 months, either for men's own health (client visit) or to support the health care of someone else (caregiver visit). We conducted single-variable tests of association and multivariable logistic regression with random effects to account for cluste

SUBMITTER: Thorp M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9558411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature