Availability, Accessibility and Utilization of Health care Services in North India

Low use of healthcare services is one of the reasons why morbidities and mortality is still considerably high among population of India. Regardless of unusual economic growth of India in last two decades, the health care... [ view full abstract ]

Low use of healthcare services is one of the reasons why morbidities and mortality is still considerably high among population of India. Regardless of unusual economic growth of India in last two decades, the health care sector still needs an enhancement & development. Even though the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), launched by government of India in 2005, has made considerable steps forward in context of Health care Infrastructure i.e availability of Services but still a long path is left ahead when we talk about its Utilization among population. To increase the utilization of these services, it is necessary to identify factors that affect service utilization. The present study is an attempt to fill the gap between availability and utilization of these services utilising the District level household survey – 4 (DLHS-4) data in North India. The multivariate analysis of the data shows that the health care infrastructure has shown an improvement but still its utilisation is very low. Number of CHC’s and PHC’s has increased and along with that number of medical personnel’s involved in health care activities has also increased. Also a number of new born care services a have also increased.