Determinants affecting utilisation of health services and treatment for children under-5 in rural Nepali health centres: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large inequalities in child health remain in Nepal, with caste, ethnicity and sex being major determinants of deprivation and negative outcomes. The purpose of this study was to explore whether key demographics of under 5s were associated with health seeking behaviours, utilisation of health care, and treatment received.

Methods

Data came from Integrated Management of Neonatal & Childhood Illness (IMNCI) records of 23 health centres across five districts. After digitising the paper records, the data was analysed by district, caste/ethnicity, sex, and age to investigate differences in the time taken to present at a health facility after the onset of symptoms of ARI, diarrhoea and fever; accuracy of diagnosis for pneumonia; and whether the correct treatment was pres

SUBMITTER: Shrestha B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9583555 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature