The Accessibility and Utilization Pattern of Primary Health Care Services Provided by Various Primary Health Centers in Salem District

Abstract

The public health services are very insufficient. The public healing and hospital services are mostly in the cities where only 25 per cent of the one billion population reside. Rural areas have mostly protective and promotive services like family planning and immunization. The private sector has a simulated monopoly over ambulatory curative services in both rural and urban areas and over half of hospital care. Further, a very large proportion of private providers are not qualified to provide modern health care because they are either trained in other systems of medicine (traditional Indian systems like Ayurveda, unani, siddha, and homoeopathy) or worse, do not have any training. These, however, are the providers from whom the poor are most likely to seek health care. This study deals with the objective to investigate the accessibility and utilization pattern of Primary Health Care services provided by various primary health centers especially in Salem district.

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