Health seeking behaviours
A mediation approach to understanding socio economic inequalities in maternal health seeking behaviours in Egypt
... seeking behaviours are a result of knowledge-related preferences or differences in access to financial re- sources is essential to designing effective interventions aimed at their ...maternal health- ...
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Health Seeking Behaviours of Patients Attending Primary Eye Care Centre in Nigeria
... Of the 303 patients enrolled in the study, 1353 (50.5%) were males and 150 (49.5%) were females. The age range was from 13 years old to 94 years old with a mean of 53.8 ± 17.05 years old. Occupation and educational ...
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Vaginal discharge: women’s health seeking behaviours and cultural practices
... women’s health, fertility and survival. A review of the health seeking behaviours and cultural practices related in reproductive age ...in seeking medical advice for pathological ...
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Health-seeking behaviours and use of traditional Chinese medicine among the British Chinese
... The empirical research entitled `Health-Seeking Behaviours and Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine among the British Chinese' encompassestwo studies; in the first study `The influence of[r] ...
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Socio-economic factors associated with maternal health-seeking behaviours among women from poor households in rural Egypt
... To quantify unobservable constructs, latent variable modelling utilises common variance among observed indicators. This technique disregards variance that is not common from the latent summary, including random error. ...
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Cultural drivers and health-seeking behaviours that impact on the transmission of pig-associated zoonoses in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
... influencing health-seeking behaviours in Lao PDR. Government health expenditure remains relatively low, with recent figures at less than 1% of the country’s GDP ...to health service ...
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Health seeking behaviours of older black women living with non communicable diseases in an urban township in South Africa
... The present study also documents that THMs are used extensively to treat health conditions, which differed from other studies where CAM/THM were used more for health maintenance [34, 37, 38]. Symptoms such ...
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Discovering the cost of care: consumer, provider, and retailer surveys shed light on the determinants of malaria health seeking behaviours
... Of the 135 pharmaceutical retail facilities inter- viewed for the study, only nineteen were operated by a licensed chemist or pharmacist. The remaining facili- ties were operated by small business owners who ran shops in ...
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Perceived Sexual Attitudes and HIV/AIDS-Health Seeking Behaviours of People Living in the Fishing Community of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria
... In conclusion, the findings of this study suggest that attitude and lifestyle may be the major factors contributing to the upsurge of HIV/AIDS prevalence in the riverine and coastal areas Nigeria. The implication is that ...
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Exploring Risk Perception and Attitudes to Miscarriage and Congenital Anomaly in Rural Western Kenya
... different health-seeking behaviours, poor nutrition, a higher prevalence of infectious diseases, weak health systems and a higher availability of a wide range of prescription-only drugs ...
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The socio demographic determinants of health care seeking behaviour by carers of children with diarrhoea in rural communities in Enugu state, Nigeria
... y health centres ...not seeking care outside the home was due to perceived severity [not serious ...appropriate health seeking behaviour amongst the economic and demographic factors were found ...
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HEALTH CARE SEEKING BEHAVIOURS: CONTRIBUTING FACTORS- A REVIEW
... World Health Organization (1948) has defined health as ―a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or ...that health is more than just the ...
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Prayer or spiritual healing as adjuncts to conventional care: a cross sectional analysis of prevalence and characteristics of use among women
... with health symptoms, chronic illnesses and positive health seeking behaviours, respect for prayer or spiritual healing practices is required within health care ...on health ...
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE INTERNET ON HEALTH SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF NURSING MOTHERS IN EKITI STATE, NIGERIA
... investigate health-related issues is now on the increase among nursing mothers in Nigeria; however, the quality of health information provided on various online sites is ...the health seeking ...
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Help Seeking Behaviours of Adolescents in Foster Care: Multiple Perspectives
... Foster parents and child protection workers were also interviewed in the interest of enriching the information provided first-hand by youth and alumni. Both child protection workers and foster parents were identified as ...
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Applying Social Theory to Understand Health-Related Behaviours
... characterising society. For example, growing up in an area with scarce employment opportunities might lead one to develop a fatalistic orientation towards life, where personal choice is seen as having little relevance, ...
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HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOURS OF ADOLESCENTS IN FOSTER CARE: A QUALITATIVE APPROACH
... mental health problem has been recognized as a learnable skill (Unrau et ...others seeking resources for them, and must be equipped to seek any assistance they need for themselves (Unrau & Grinnell, ...
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The everyday life information seeking behaviours of first-time mothers
... information seeking behaviour of 20 stay-at-home mothers (SAHM) of children of various ages and number; positing that while SAHMs have “substantial information needs… little is known about the range of these ...
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Treatment-seeking for selected reproductive health problems: behaviours of unmarried female adolescents in two low-performing areas of Bangladesh
... adolescent health; reduction of health disparities, and improvements in health-seeking be- ...of health- care-seeking behaviour for reproductive conditions and STI ...
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Doctors as the governing body of the Kurdish health system: exploring upward and downward accountability among physicians and its influence on the adoption of coping behaviours
... and health workers, as street-level bureaucrats ...the behaviours of SLBs should be considered after understanding the contextual conditions under which they ...
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