Morbidity and treatment seeking behavior among adolescent girls in a rural area of North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal.
A community based, cross-sectional study, conducted in 1999 in a rural area of West Bengal, among 143 adolescent girls (10-19 years), selected through multistage sampling procedure revealed prevalence of acute and chronic morbidity as 30.8% and 7.7% respectively. 84.1% adolescent girls sought for treatment during acute morbidity from various sources; only 22.7% from Government health facilities. Non- availability of medicine (34%), long distance (24%) and poor quality of treatment (10%) were the main reasons for non-utilization of Government health facilities.
Das
Dilip Kumar
DK
Community Medicine, R. G. Kar Medical College. dilip_shampa@hotmail.com
Biswas
Ranadeb
R
D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D009017:Morbidity; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012424:Rural Population