Understanding the factors associated with service use is essential to stimulate future quantitative research and to develop interventions aimed at increasing the utilization of available PMTCT services.
Their role is to enhance the awareness and utilization of available healthcare services while addressing some of the social-behavioral issues patients experience as they initiate or continue in care [ 12, 15].
Similar study showed rising the awareness of women about reproductive health may improve the women's understanding of their own reproductive health and contribute to their acceptance and utilization of available reproductive health services [ 16].
Depending on the attendance rate of a patient (that is, the utilization probability of available dental services), present or developing dentinal lesions could either be detected or not.
There is a need to improve on health policy in the area of provision of funds, efficient utilization of available resources and efficient investment in core medical equipment and service deliverables.
Clearly, these utilization rates should be used with some caution, as the denominators are often poorly defined [ 24] and, as such, these rates only measure a fraction of real utilization of health services available.
It can also be argued that provision of such services may increase the trust of public in government healthcare system and increase the utilization of other services available but not popular at primary care level.
Utilization was often limited to seeking one of the available services, e.g. a participant may seek health services for rape, but may not follow referrals to law enforcement or psychosocial services.
It is necessary, but not sufficient, for health systems to ensure that good quality maternity services are widely available; utilization of these services also involves the dynamics of users' decision-making.
These data suggest that efforts have to be made to better understand the causes of eye care service underutilization and to optimize the utilization of the available eye care services in the population.
