Perceived morbidity, healthcare-seeking behavior and their determinants in a poor-resource setting: Observation from India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Kanungo, Suman ^a   Bhowmik, Kalyan ^a   Mahapatra, Tanmay ^a   Mahapatra, Sanchita ^a   Bhadra, Uchhal K ^b   Sarkar, Kamalesh ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b Department of Physiology   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPEPSIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENDER; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTHCARE SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYGIENE; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; MUSLIM; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POOR RESOURCE SETTING; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SKIN INFECTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TYPHOID FEVER; URBAN POPULATION; WATER SUPPLY; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASES; ETHNOLOGY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930672612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125865     Document Type: Article

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