Availability and Utilization of Primary Healthcare Centre in Thanjavur District, Tamilnadu
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Patients Performance -Travel Behavioural pattern- ProximityAbstract
Health is a common theme in most cultures. Among the definitions still used, probably the oldest is that health is not the absence of disease. Contemporary developments in social sciences reveal that health is not only a biomedical phenomenon, but one which is influenced by social, psychological, cultural, economic and political factors of the people concerned. Thanjavur District lies on the east of Tamil Nadu. It is situated between 90 50’and 110 25’ of the northern latitude and between 780 45’and 790 25’ of the eastern longitude. It extends to an area of 3411 sq. kms. Our sample in Thanjavur, we found more people depending upon the public health facilities than on the private health facilities. Almost 74% people went to public health facilities and only 26% went to the private health facilities. The health status of various blocks of the district in relation to other blocks with reference to socio-economic living, environment, family structure and health care utilization but also emphasized the intra regional variation that exists among different bocks in the health status of the population.
The present study is based on the major aims and objectives as follows.
- To study the socio-economic characterization of patients’ rural healthcare performance.
- To study the characteristics of diseases and the implementation of healthcare facilities, availability and utilization of the primary health services in the rural areas of Thanjavur block wise details.
However, in the selection of the blocks few points were considered such as the distance of these villages from the urban area and access to the facilities of the rural area. This plays an important role in the improvement of healthcare centre in Thanjavur district. Different geographic regions of Thanjavur district with reference to the PHC patient, their family, family type, socio economic characteristics, Accessibility and healthcare facilities and environmental setting, etc., were analyzed with the help of descriptive statistical analysis tools.
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