Primary Health Centres and Patients Satisfaction Level in Haripad Community Development Block of Kerala, India (original) (raw)

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ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT The main objectives of the present study were to show the spatial distribution of Primary Health Centres in the Haripad Block of Kerala and to investigate the patients' perception regarding the services provided by the Primary Health Centres. Spatial distr shown with the help of GIS mapping. Out of eight Primary Health Centres of the Block, five of them were selected by lottery method of simple random sampling for the present study. A pre designed schedule was used for t tabulated and analysed by using of primary health care services in Haripad The major problems of all sampled Primary Health Centres were the less number of doctors, absence of doctors from services, the lack of sanitary facilities and other infrastructure such as inpatients room, lab, bed etc. Copyright © 2014 Sarath Chandran and Pankaj Roy. This unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly INTRODUCTION

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