Behavioral Risk Factor and Primary Healthcare Utilization in South Africa.

ABSTRACT: (1) Background: An effective and efficient primary healthcare service is one of the reforms designed to achieve universal healthcare coverage. The success of the reform however depends on the ability to identify factors that could undermine through avoidable use, the effectiveness of various deployed scarce resources. The prevalence of unhealthy lifestyle risk factors that have been identified as a critical public health issue, which stimulate vulnerability and mortality through the development of non-communicable diseases, also have implications for government health spending through healthcare utilization. (2) Objective: This study aims to investigate the effect of behavioral risk factors on primary healthcare utilization in South Africa. (3) Methods: Using the NIDS wave 4 data set and a

SUBMITTER: Megbowon ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9690558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature