A cross-sectional study to identify the factors associated with utilisation of healthcare for non-communicable diseases in a southern part of India

2016-08-17T09-57-13Z
Source: International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health
Devarshi Bhattacharyya, Sanjay M Pattanshetty, Chandreyee Duttagupta.
Background: In India, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a serious threat to human resources, as the recent data suggests that one in four Indians are at a risk of dying of NCDs before they reach 70 years of age. Healthcare utilisation is a major policy issue to tackle the threat of non-communicable diseases. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the factors and build a regression model that shows how the various factors affect health care service utilisation for non-communicable diseases across rural and urban households of Udupi taluk, Karnataka. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done to study the objective. Two-stage cluster sampling technique was used in both rural and urban areas. Thirty villages and 30 urban wards of Udupi taluk were selected by the probability proportional to size (PPS) technique. Result: On univariate analysis, the factors found to be significant (p-value

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