Mohammad Akram Parvez, Mushtaq A Chaudhry, Fouzia Rehman, Malik ManzoorAhmad Khan.
Utilization of Rural Basic Health Services in Pakistan.
Mother & Child Jan ;34(4):118-129.

In 1993, Ministry of Health, Government of Pakistan undertook a national study to assess the utilization of rural health services in Pakistan. Sample size taken was approximately two percent of the total institutions as this number was the maximum, which was feasible within financial and logistic/technical resources. It may be added that the study in 1982-83 by the Planning Division had used a sample size of 1.2% of the total institutions. Apart from other findings, the study showed that 40.2% of the 445 ill persons got treatment from private practitioners/clinics, 28.5% from the Rural Health Facility (RHF). 14.8% from Government Hospitals, 6.5% both from Government and private health facility, 3.4% from Hakims/Homoepaths and 6.5% from other sources including some missing informationThe reasons given by 308 respondents for not getting treatment from the RHFs were: medicines not available by 21.8%, staff not available by 17.5%, did not get well by 16.2%, low quality of service by 7.5% and far away from home by 7.1%. There was 7.5% respondents who had other reasons and 22.4% did not like to give reasons.

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