NDLI: Predicting health services utilization using a score of perceived barriers to medical care: evidence from rural Senegal

Content Provider	Springer Nature : BioMed Central
Author	Coste, Marion Bousmah, Marwân-al-Qays
Abstract	Background Ensuring access to healthcare services is a key element to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 3 of “promoting healthy lives and well-being for all” through Universal Health Coverage (UHC). However, in the context of low- and middle-income countries, most studies focused on financial protection measured through catastrophic health expenditures (CHE), or on health services utilization among specific populations exhibiting health needs (such as pregnancy or recent sickness). Methods This study aims at building an individual score of perceived barriers to medical care (PBMC) in order to predict primary care utilization (or non-utilization). We estimate the score on six items: (1) knowing where to go, (2) getting permission, (3) having money, (4) distance to the facility, (5) finding transport, and (6) not wanting to go alone, using individual data from 1787 adult participants living in rural Senegal. We build the score via a stepwise descendent explanatory factor analysis (EFA), and assess its internal consistency. Finally, we assess the construct validity of the factor-based score by testing its association (univariate regressions) with a wide range of variables on determinants of healthcare-seeking, and evaluate its predictive validity for primary care utilization. Results EFA yields a one-dimensional score combining four items with a 0.7 Cronbach’s alpha indicating good internal consistency. The score is strongly associated—p-values significant at the 5% level—with determinants of healthcare-seeking (including, but not limited to, sex, education, marital status, poverty, and distance to the health facility). Additionally, the score can predict non-utilization of primary care at the household level, utilization and non-utilization of primary care following an individual’s episode of illness, and utilization of primary care during pregnancy and birth. These results are robust to the use of a different dataset. Conclusion As a valid, sensitive, and easily documented individual-level indicator, the PBMC score can be a complement to regional or national level health services coverage to measure health services access and predict utilization. At the individual or household level, the PBMC score can also be combined with conventional metrics of financial risk protection such as CHE to comprehensively document deficits in, and progress towards UHC.
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Page Count	11
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ISSN	14726963
DOI	10.1186/s12913-023-09192-2
Journal	BMC Health Services Research
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	23
Language	English
Publisher	BioMed Central
Publisher Date	2023-03-16
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Health Administration Health Informatics Nursing Research Healthcare access Perceived barriers Primary care Universal health coverage (UHC) Rural Senegal Sub-Saharan Africa
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Health Policy

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