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Acceptability – a neglected dimension of access to health care: findings from a study on childhood convulsions in rural Tanzania

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Title
Acceptability – a neglected dimension of access to health care: findings from a study on childhood convulsions in rural Tanzania
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BMC Health Services Research, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-12-113
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Angel Dillip, Sandra Alba, Christopher Mshana, Manuel W Hetzel, Christian Lengeler, Iddy Mayumana, Alexander Schulze, Hassan Mshinda, Mitchell G Weiss, Brigit Obrist

Abstract

Acceptability is a poorly conceptualized dimension of access to health care. Using a study on childhood convulsion in rural Tanzania, we examined social acceptability from a user perspective. The study design is based on the premise that a match between health providers' and clients' understanding of disease is an important dimension of social acceptability, especially in trans-cultural communication, for example if childhood convulsions are not linked with malaria and local treatment practices are mostly preferred. The study was linked to health interventions with the objective of bridging the gap between local and biomedical understanding of convulsions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
Ethiopia 1 <1%
Tanzania, United Republic of 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Unknown 236 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 45 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 13%
Researcher 28 12%
Student > Bachelor 27 11%
Student > Postgraduate 13 5%
Other 51 21%
Unknown 48 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 74 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 27 11%
Social Sciences 27 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 2%
Other 40 16%
Unknown 60 25%