title: Pattern of medical care services utilization in Fiji.
abstract: The present study was designed to analyze sociodemographic and health related factors that influence the utilization of medical care services in Fiji by using the method of discriminant function. Some sociodemographic and health related independent variables had significant effects on the two patterns of modern and traditional medical services utilization. Discriminant function coefficients for sex, age and race are large enough to suggest the importance of discriminating between two patterns of medical care utilization. This suggests that traditional medical service is coexistent with modern medicine in Fiji and might play an extremely important role in providing health care for rural communities in the same way as modern medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tomari
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yanagihashi
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wakisaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hatano
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Asa
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pathik
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Balgovind
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Satoh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003710:Demography; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008875:Middle Aged; D010548:Personal Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013188:Sri Lanka / Q000208:ethnology