Journal article
Determinants of Health Service Utilization Among Adults at High Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes in Kerala, India
P Hone, J Black, T Sathish, N Kapoor, Y Cao, T Haregu, KR Thankappan, B Oldenburg
Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health | SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC | Published : 2022
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of health service utilization in a population at high risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus in India. Using Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare utilization, multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed on baseline data of the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program. We examined the association between predisposing, enabling, and need factors with outpatient health service use in the past four weeks and inpatient health service use in the past 12 months. More than a quarter (27.9%) and 12.9% of 1007 participants used outpatient services and inpatient services, respectively. Men were less likely to use outpatient servi..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Data were collected as part of the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program (K-DPP) which was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia (Project Grant ID 1005324). The author(s) received no additional financial support for the analysis, authorship, and/or publication of this article.