| dc.creator |
Muhanga, M. |
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| dc.creator |
Chabila, M. |
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| dc.date |
2020-08-25T10:16:43Z |
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| dc.date |
2020-08-25T10:16:43Z |
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| dc.date |
2019 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-10-25T08:51:28Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-10-25T08:51:28Z |
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| dc.identifier |
Muhanga ,M.I and Mapoma, C..C. (2019). An Analysis of Drivers of Health Care Seeking Sources Preferences in Selected Wards in Eastern Tanzania. The East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Volume 1, Issue 1, 20-28 |
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| dc.identifier |
https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/3152 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/91434 |
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| dc.description |
Access, effectiveness, and utilization of healthcare services can affect the attainment of good health as healthcare services
have a role in promoting the population's health and livelihoods of communities. Understanding factors that drive an individual's
preference in seeking health care from a particular source(s) is an important aspect that has a profound contribution in facilitating the
effective provision of health services. Though this aspect is generally known; very scanty information is available on what drives
individuals’ preference on health care service sources under One Health Approach in Tanzania. A cross-sectional study was conducted
in Morogoro municipality and Mvomero district in Tanzania, inter alia, to analyse the determinants of individuals' health care service
source preference. A structured questionnaire administered through a Computer-Aided Personal Interviewing (CAPI) electronic
platform was used to collect data from 1440 respondents obtained through a multistage sampling procedure. IBM-SPSS v20 was used to
analyse quantitative data. Binary logistic regression determined an individual preference for sources to seek health care. The results
revealed that 41.2% of the respondents preferred to seek health care services from informal sources and 58.8% from formal sources.
Marital status (Exp B= 0.001, 95% CI, .000 to .010), ß=-6.946, p=0.000, service characteristics (Exp B= 1.678, ß=0.518, p=0.000), beliefs
on the effectiveness of health services (Exp B= 5.268, ß=1.662 at p=0.001) had significant influence on determining preference for a
source of health care. It is recommended that health services should be improved from the formal health care sources since the majority
of respondents had a preference for it |
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application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.publisher |
The East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities |
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| dc.subject |
Health Care Seeking, determinants of health care seeking, health care utilisation, Tanzania |
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| dc.title |
An Analysis of Drivers of Health Care Seeking Sources Preferences in Selected Wards in Eastern Tanzania |
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| dc.type |
Article |
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