Access, Equity, and Choice in the Mexican Health System: A Case Study of San Pablo Etla

Now showing item 1 of 1

Title:	Access, Equity, and Choice in the Mexican Health System: A Case Study of San Pablo Etla
Author:	Overholt, Sarah E.
Description:	This thesis explores how residents of San Pablo Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico perceive and use available health services in the public and private sector. It determines how perceptions of health services and considerations such as household resources, transportation, and health risks result in patterns of health seeking behaviors. It examines the impact on the ability of individuals and households to access primary care services if public services are viewed as inferior to private health care services. Ethnographic methods of observation and unstructured interviews were used. The choice between public and private health services depends on the ability of the individual or household to seek private services. Perception of public services follows this choice and negative perceptions support the choice to opt out of public health services. Opting out of public services by poor households leads to a reduction in use of primary health care.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1125869288 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/15118
Date:	2005

Files in this item

Files	Size	Format	View
There are no files associated with this item.

Now showing item 1 of 1