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Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania

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Title
Unfulfilled expectations to services offered at primary health care facilities: Experiences of caretakers of underfive children in rural Tanzania
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BMC Health Services Research, June 2012
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-12-158
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Catherine Kahabuka, Karen Marie Moland, Gunnar Kvåle, Sven Gudmund Hinderaker

Abstract

There is growing evidence that patients frequently bypass primary health care (PHC) facilities in favour of higher level hospitals regardless of substantial additional time and costs. Among the reasons given for bypassing are poor services (including lack of drugs and diagnostic facilities) and lack of trust in health workers. The World Health Report 2008 "PHC now more than ever" pointed to the importance of organizing health services around people's needs and expectations as one of the four main issues of PHC reforms. There is limited documentation of user's expectations to services offered at PHC facilities. The current study is a community extension of a hospital-based survey that showed a high bypassing frequency of PHC facilities among caretakers seeking care for their underfive children at two district hospitals. We aimed to explore caretakers' perceptions and expectations to services offered at PHC facilities in their area with reference to their experiences seeking care at such facilities.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Indonesia 2 1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Zambia 1 <1%
Bangladesh 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Bhutan 1 <1%
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 141 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 27%
Researcher 22 14%
Student > Bachelor 20 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 7%
Student > Postgraduate 8 5%
Other 29 19%
Unknown 21 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 57 38%
Social Sciences 24 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Other 22 14%
Unknown 26 17%
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