How children aged 0 to 6 benefits from health services, permanent service resources and the factors affecting them; [0-6 yaş çocukların saǧlik hizmet kullanımları, sürekli hizmet kaynakları ve etkileyen faktörler]

Altiparmak S.; Yildirim Sari H.

How children aged 0 to 6 benefits from health services, permanent service resources and the factors affecting them; [0-6 yaş çocukların saǧlik hizmet kullanımları, sürekli hizmet kaynakları ve etkileyen faktörler]

Date

2012

Authors

Altiparmak S.

Yildirim Sari H.

Publisher

Gulhane Military Medical Academy

Abstract

AIM: Aim of the research is "How children aged 0 to 6 benefit from health services, permanent service resources and the factors affecting them". METHOD: The 3839 children aged 0-72 months and followed by the 3rd Family Health Center in Manisa comprise the population of this descriptive study. The sample size was determined as 192 based on the Epi info Statcalc statistical program with a prevalence of 8.3%, a sampling error of 12:05, and a confidence limit of 99%. In the study, the following two forms were used: socio-demographic questionnaire, evaluation form for the use of health services. The data were evaluated with the 15.00 SPSS package program. To assess the data points, chi-square test and descriptive statistics such as percentage were used. RESULTS: The distribution of age groups of the children participating in the study is 37.4 ± 22.3 months (min: 0 months, max: 72 months). Of the children in the study, 52.1% were male. Of the 0-6 age group children in the study, 28.6% had a health problem and 20.8% presented to a medical facility. The institutions preferred most were state institutions. All of the children received at least one preventive health service. Of the children, 78.1% had permanent health care and 57.3% of them received health care from family health centers. There was a statistically significant difference between children with and without a congenital disease, and between children with and without social security. CONCLUSION: One of the results obtained from this study suggests that children with a congenital disease are expected to apply to health facilities more often. Another result is that having health insurance is an important factor which increases the use of health services.