The BHPS collects self-reports of utilisation of health services (General Practitioner and hospital services as well as a range of other health and welfare services such as a health visitor, meals on wheels, social workers, family planning clinic) and of health status which give a holistic summary of the health condition of an individual.
The studies represented true epidemiological research as well as reports of service utilisation in polyclinics.
There have been reports of poor utilisation of analgesia in labour despite high (85.1%) demand for it by Nigerian parturients [ 8].
This result is consistent with previous reports of healthcare utilisation by the immigrant population and was probably due to the healthy immigrant effect [ 16, 25], according to which recently arrived immigrants have better health status than native-born residents because of a previous "natural selection procedure" in each country of origin.
This MMR is high for a middle-income country, particularly considering that South Africa has high overall reported levels of utilisation of maternal health services with 92% of women reporting one or more ante-natal care (ANC) visit and 91.5% of women having a skilled attendant at delivery [ 11].
Another limitation is that cost analysis was not based on direct cost measurement but on patient self-reporting of resource utilisation, which can be affected by recall bias.
Bold figures: Reflect ORs which are smaller/larger than 1 with a confidence level of 95%% In unadjusted models, the odds of reporting utilisation of any physician, GPs, psychotherapists, hospital admissions and unmet medical need in the last 12 months were lower among asylum-seekers who filled out the questionnaire in English relative to those submitting the German version.
There are no reports of community-based utilisation of ERCP in the USA.
There are no reports of community-based utilisation of ERCP in the USA, but there are several from Europe.
This investigation reports the utilisation of two sets of antenna systems with different frequencies (900 MHz and 2 GHz GPR) in establishing structural details of the tunnel roof at immersion joints.
Nevertheless, in the present study we cannot exclude the possibility that an over-representation of sicker lower educated people in the non-response group may have led to some underestimation of the pro-rich inequalities in prevalence rates of utilisation reported here.
