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Understanding where parents take their sick children and why it matters: a multi-country analysis

BACKGROUND: Developing effective context-specific strategies to ensure that a high proportion of children receive timely and appropriate care requires knowing the source from which care is sought. Although Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) collect suc...

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Autores principales: Hodgins, Stephen, Pullum, Thomas, Dougherty, Leanne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health: Science and Practice 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276548
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00023
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description BACKGROUND: Developing effective context-specific strategies to ensure that a high proportion of children receive timely and appropriate care requires knowing the source from which care is sought. Although Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) collect such data in disaggregated form, they are not made available in the standard DHS and MICS reports. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was done on 42 DHS and MICS surveys conducted since 2005 for care seeking for acute respiratory illness (DHS and MICS), diarrhea (DHS only), and fever (DHS only), disaggregating by urban-rural settings. Eight categories were used for source of care. Stata, version 12, was used for the analysis. RESULTS: Patterns varied considerably, with care seeking in most of sub-Saharan Africa predominantly from public-sector providers, in South Asia predominantly from the private sector, and in Southeast Asia from a mix of public and private sources. Community health workers were not an important source of care. CONCLUSIONS: Variation in care-seeking patterns has implications for effective strategy, as described in more detail in 5 country examples from Asia and Africa. The analysis also suggests that it may be inappropriate to focus program efforts on community health workers to the exclusion of more widely used sources of care. The authors argue that, in order to ensure sounder program approaches, disaggregated care-seeking data should be routinely included in DHS and MICS reports. Finally, the authors call for more data on actual care provided in order to improve quality of care.
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spelling pubmed-41685862014-09-30 Understanding where parents take their sick children and why it matters: a multi-country analysis Hodgins, Stephen Pullum, Thomas Dougherty, Leanne Glob Health Sci Pract Original Articles BACKGROUND: Developing effective context-specific strategies to ensure that a high proportion of children receive timely and appropriate care requires knowing the source from which care is sought. Although Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) collect such data in disaggregated form, they are not made available in the standard DHS and MICS reports. METHODS: Secondary data analysis was done on 42 DHS and MICS surveys conducted since 2005 for care seeking for acute respiratory illness (DHS and MICS), diarrhea (DHS only), and fever (DHS only), disaggregating by urban-rural settings. Eight categories were used for source of care. Stata, version 12, was used for the analysis. RESULTS: Patterns varied considerably, with care seeking in most of sub-Saharan Africa predominantly from public-sector providers, in South Asia predominantly from the private sector, and in Southeast Asia from a mix of public and private sources. Community health workers were not an important source of care. CONCLUSIONS: Variation in care-seeking patterns has implications for effective strategy, as described in more detail in 5 country examples from Asia and Africa. The analysis also suggests that it may be inappropriate to focus program efforts on community health workers to the exclusion of more widely used sources of care. The authors argue that, in order to ensure sounder program approaches, disaggregated care-seeking data should be routinely included in DHS and MICS reports. Finally, the authors call for more data on actual care provided in order to improve quality of care. Global Health: Science and Practice 2013-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4168586/ /pubmed/25276548 http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00023 Text en © Hodgins et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4168586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25276548
http://dx.doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00023
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