Inequities in healthcare seeking in the treatment of communicable endemic diseases in Southeast Nigeria

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 455-463

  Onwujekwe, Obinna ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Equity; Help seeking; Inequity; Nigeria; SES; Socioeconomic status; Tropical diseases

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME; HOSPITAL; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NIGERIA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 18844451794     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.11.066     Document Type: Article

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