Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal
| dc.contributor.author | Anne, Case | |
| dc.contributor.author | Alicia, Menendez | |
| dc.contributor.author | Cally, Ardington | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-03T09:38:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-03T09:38:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-03T09:36:37Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | We examine patterns of health seeking behaviour prior to death among 1282 individuals who lived in the Umkhanyakude District of Northern KwaZuluNatal. Information on the health care choices of these individuals, who died between January 2003 and July 2004, was gathered after their deaths from their primary care-givers. We examine choices made concerning public and private medicine, western and traditional medicine, and non-prescribed self-medication. We find that virtually all adults who were ill prior to death sought treatment from a Western medical provider, visiting either a public clinic or a private doctor. In this district, which is predominantly poor, ninety percent of adults who sought treatment from a public clinic also visited a private doctor. Fifty percent also sought treatment from a traditional healer, suggesting that traditional medicine is seen as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, Western care. Better educated people who were ill for less than a month before dying were significantly more likely to visit a private doctor, while those least well educated were more likely to visit a traditional healer. Controlling for length of illness, better educated and wealthier people sought care from a greater range of providers, and spent significantly more on their treatment. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Anne, C., Alicia, M., & Cally, A. (2005). <i>Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19366 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Anne, Case, Menendez Alicia, and Ardington Cally <i>Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19366 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Case, A., Menendez, A., & Ardington, C. (2005). Health seeking behaviour in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 1-77011-048-8 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Anne, Case AU - Alicia, Menendez AU - Cally, Ardington AB - We examine patterns of health seeking behaviour prior to death among 1282 individuals who lived in the Umkhanyakude District of Northern KwaZuluNatal. Information on the health care choices of these individuals, who died between January 2003 and July 2004, was gathered after their deaths from their primary care-givers. We examine choices made concerning public and private medicine, western and traditional medicine, and non-prescribed self-medication. We find that virtually all adults who were ill prior to death sought treatment from a Western medical provider, visiting either a public clinic or a private doctor. In this district, which is predominantly poor, ninety percent of adults who sought treatment from a public clinic also visited a private doctor. Fifty percent also sought treatment from a traditional healer, suggesting that traditional medicine is seen as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, Western care. Better educated people who were ill for less than a month before dying were significantly more likely to visit a private doctor, while those least well educated were more likely to visit a traditional healer. Controlling for length of illness, better educated and wealthier people sought care from a greater range of providers, and spent significantly more on their treatment. DA - 2005 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2005 SM - 1-77011-048-8 T1 - Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal TI - Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19366 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19366 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Anne C, Alicia M, Cally A. Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal. 2005 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19366 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/ | |
| dc.subject.other | health seeking behaviour | |
| dc.subject.other | health | |
| dc.title | Health Seeking Behavior in Northern KwaZulu-Natal | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |