Investigation into equity in utilization of curative care by using method of household survey
- Author:
Truong Viet Dung
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Curative care
- MeSH:
Utilization;
Family Characteristics;
Self Medication;
Private Sector;
Private Practice
- From:Journal of Medical Research
2004;27(1):140-146
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The study was conducted in 28 rural communes at 7 geographical regions, with the sample size 5579 households and population of 25243 involved. The time-serial sampling household survey was carried out with 8 cross-sectional studies during a two year period (2000-2001). The findings showed that: Self-medication was the most popular choice for sick persons, there was a progressive tendency that the more poor likely to use it than the rich (39.7% & 35.6%). The next choices were private clinics and commune health stations (CHS). Utilization of hospital care was quite low (5.2% - 11.3% for out-patients and 5.4% - 6.5% for in-patients). Inequity in health care utilization was seen in out-patients services at the hospital level, whereas it was not happened in in-patient care and at the CHS. The poor even those having health insurance used hospital care as 1/2 of the richest
