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There is an increasing tendency for the community, the poor and the better off, to use self-medication as health seeking practice for minor illness.
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This sharp decline in the probability estimates indicate that education does offset the negative impact caused due to being deprived in health seeking practices for female children.
To improve care seeking practices for preterm babies and referral of sick newborns to qualified providers/facilities, we recommend: 1) involving community-preferred health care providers in community-based health education and awareness raising programs; 2) integrating postnatal care seeking messages into antenatal counselling; and 3) further research on care seeking practices for preterm babies.
In addition, culturally, women may have no autonomy to seek care when husbands or in-laws are conceived as the decision makers on care seeking practices for women [ 9].
The objectives of the present study were as follows: to quantify perceived illness; to examine home care practices for illness; to quantify care seeking practices for illness; and to examine the choice of care.
Finally, we recommend further studies on community-level care seeking practices for preterm babies which would help in planning programs to reduce morbidity and mortality risks for babies who are 'Born Too Soon'.
Most of the known factors associated with care seeking practice were adjusted for in the analysis.
Given the variability of socio-demographic and cultural contexts, differentials in perception of vulnerability or risk for newborns, and prevailing customs, traditions and beliefs within communities, it is critically important to understand community-specific patterns and determinants of population-level neonatal care seeking practices, especially for preterm newborns.
Even after controlling for child health precautions and health seeking practices, maternal education is significant for male children (OR = −1.648; p-value = 0.070).
Considerable scope for improvement in care practices remains, including in treatment seeking practices.
The questionnaire was designed to elicit care-seeking practice for the most recent illness (less than 2 weeks before the interview).
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