Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children? A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania.
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Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children? A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania. / Samuelsen, Helle; Tersbøl, Britt Pinkowski; Mbuyita, Selemani Said.
In: B M C Health Services Research, Vol. 13, No. 67, 2013, p. 1-10.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Do health systems delay the treatment of poor children?
T2 - A qualitative study of child deaths in rural Tanzania.
AU - Samuelsen, Helle
AU - Tersbøl, Britt Pinkowski
AU - Mbuyita, Selemani Said
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Child mortality remains one of the major public-health problems in Tanzania. Delays in receiving and accessing adequate care contribute to these high rates. The literature on public health often focuses on the role of mothers in delaying treatment, suggesting that they contact the health system too late and that they prefer to treat their children at home, a perspective often echoed by health workers. Using the three-delay methodology, this study focus on the third phase of the model, exploring the delays experienced in receiving adequate care when mothers with a sick child contact a health-care facility. The overall objective is to analyse specific structural factors embedded in everyday practices at health facilities in a district in Tanzania which cause delays in the treatment of poor children and to discuss possible changes to institutions and social technologies.
AB - Child mortality remains one of the major public-health problems in Tanzania. Delays in receiving and accessing adequate care contribute to these high rates. The literature on public health often focuses on the role of mothers in delaying treatment, suggesting that they contact the health system too late and that they prefer to treat their children at home, a perspective often echoed by health workers. Using the three-delay methodology, this study focus on the third phase of the model, exploring the delays experienced in receiving adequate care when mothers with a sick child contact a health-care facility. The overall objective is to analyse specific structural factors embedded in everyday practices at health facilities in a district in Tanzania which cause delays in the treatment of poor children and to discuss possible changes to institutions and social technologies.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Health Systems
KW - Delay
KW - Child mortality
KW - Tanzania
KW - treatment seeking
KW - doctor-patient relationship
KW - Health systems
KW - Delay
KW - Child mortality
KW - Tanzania
KW - Treatment seeking
KW - Doctor–patient relationship
U2 - 10.1186/1472-6963-13-67
DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-13-67
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23421705
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - BMC Health Services Research
JF - BMC Health Services Research
SN - 1472-6963
IS - 67
ER -
ID: 44852345