Health seeking behaviour for child illness in rural Guatemala

• Published in: Tropical medicine & international health Vol. 1; no. 2; pp. 161 - 170
• Main Authors: Stuyft, Patrick, Sorensen, Soren C., Delgado, Eugenia, Bocaletti, Elizabeth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.1996; Blackwell Science
• Subjects: Adult; Age Factors; Biological and medical sciences; child death; Child Health Services - utilization; Child, Preschool; ethnicity; Female; General aspects; Guatemala; Guatemala - epidemiology; health care behaviour; health service utilization; Health Services Research; Human infectious diseases. Experimental studies and models; Humans; Infant; Infant Mortality; Infant, Newborn; Infectious diseases; Linear Models; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine, Traditional; Mothers - psychology; Patient Acceptance of Health Care - ethnology; Rural Health Services - utilization; self‐care; self‐medication; Socioeconomic Factors; Surveys and Questionnaires; traditional medicine; Tropical medicine; Guatemala; Central America; America; Human; Self prescription; Symptomatology; Disease; Mother; Folk medicine; Health; Behavior; Child; Care

Summary Considerable efforts were made in Guatemala to cover rural areas with health centres, and health programmes have been launched to treat and prevent the most important childhood diseases. Despite this, the utilization rate of public health services has reportedly been low throughout the past...