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Health care seeking behavior for common childhood illnesses in Birendranagar municipality, Surkhet, Nepal: 2018

2022; Public Library of Science; Volume: 17; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1371/journal.pone.0264676

1932-6203

Ganga Tiwari, Ajoy Kumar Thakur, Sushil Pokhrel, Ganesh Tiwari, Durga Prasad Pahari,

Child Nutrition and Water Access

Appropriate and prompt health care seeking by parents or caretakers can reduce morbidity and mortality among under-five year children. Although remarkable progress has been made in the reduction of under-five mortality, still the under-five mortality rate is high in Nepal. There are few studies on health care seeking behavior among caretakers in Nepal. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the prevailing health care seeking behavior of caretakers on common childhood illness of under five year children and to identify the association of socio demographic, economic, illness related and health system related factors with health care seeking behavior in 2018.