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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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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, May 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-113 |
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| Authors |
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. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 246 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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 | 239 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 45 | 18% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 31 | 13% |
| Researcher | 29 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 28 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 50 | 20% |
| Unknown | 50 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 75 | 30% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 28 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 28 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 2% |
| Other | 38 | 15% |
| Unknown | 62 | 25% |