Informal healthcare sector and marginalized groups: Repeat visits in rural North India.

ABSTRACT: The interrelationship between the public and private sectors, and formal and informal healthcare sectors effects market-level service quality, pricing behaviour and referral networks. However, health utilisation analysis of national survey data from many low and middle income countries is constrained by the lack of disaggregated health provider data. This study is concerned with the pattern of repeat outpatient consultations for a single episode of fever from public and private qualified providers and private unqualified providers. Cross-sectional survey data from 1173 adult respondents sampled from three districts within India's most populous state-Uttar Pradesh is analysed. Data was collected during the monsoon season-September to October-in 2012. Regression analysis focuses on the patte

SUBMITTER: Iles RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034796 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature