Health care seeking behaviour- A theoretical perspective
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Health care has received a greater significance today in order to achieve a Healthy Society. Many factors like sex, age, type of illness, access to services and perceived quality of the services, influences the health seeking behaviour. Scholars from different streams of economics, anthropology, epidemiology, public policy and management have explored the reasons behind utilization of healthcare services by an individual. There are different models to explain healthcare services utilization for instance, a psychological model based on social structure and individual medical orientation of an individual (Suchman, 1965), the health belief model based on the various perceptions and motivations of the individual and utility driven healthcare seeking decision steps model. Andersen & Newman’s (1973) framework of health care services utilization, envisages that an individual’s use of health care depends on three components: predisposing, enabling and illness level. Predisposing component tries to explain the inclination of an individual towards use of health services prior to beginning of an illness episode. Health care professionals could use these explanations to design interventions to promote care-seeking behaviours.If explanations of care-seeking behaviour were supported empirically for one condition, and then these explanations could be tested in relation to care seeking for other health behaviour.
Authors and Affiliations
Pushpalata N. kanbarkar, Dr. Chandrika K. B.
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