Health care seeking behaviour: The options

1
Health care seeking behaviour The options

• Perceived severity of symptoms
• Availability
• Access
• Organisation of system
• Cost
• convenience
• Perceived quality of treatment
• relevance
• effectiveness

2
Health care seeking behaviour The options

• Quality of therapeutic relationship
• social distance
• control
• trust
• Social and cultural factors
• Gender/age etc.
• conflicts
• stigma

3
The Therapy Managing Group

• Size and composition
• micro-politics
• education
• resources
• cash
• credit
• knowledge
• contacts

4
How do health care systems function?

• Focus on dynamics of actually existing medical
  pluralism.
• Define sectors or types of health care available
• peoples use of different options
• how the nature and interrelationship of options
  change

5
How do health care systems function?

• Advantages
• examines relation of ethnomedicine and
  biomedicine
• requires combination of levels from individual
  user, to community, to national and
  international structures/agencies
• useful for development work
• Disadvantages
• health care systems may no be the most important
  determinant of health.