Table 3 Healthcare-seeking preferences among migrant workers for GI, obstetric and respiratory problems by occupation
Health-seeking Preferences | GI problems* | Obstetric problems* | Respiratory problems* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FW | RT | CW | FW | RT | CW | FW | RT | CW | |
No. (%) n = 119 | No. (%) n = 119 | No. (%) n = 83 | No. (%) n = 32 | No. (%) n = 28 | No. (%) n = 35 | No. (%) n = 183 | No. (%) n = 162 | No. (%) n = 103 | |
Government hospital | 9 (7.6) | 13 (10.9) | 29 (34.9) | 5 (15.7) | 22 (78.6) | 27 (77.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | 9 (8.7) |
Government health centre | 0 (0.0) | 29 (24.4) | 26 (31.3) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (10.7) | 6 (17.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | 3 (2.9) |
Factory clinic | 92 (77.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 9 (4.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
NGO clinic | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (3.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Private clinic | 54 (45.4) | 96 (80.7) | 23 (27.7) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (10.7) | 1 (2.9) | 2 (1.1) | 31 (19.1) | 8 (7.8) |
Self medication | 23 (19.3) | 45 (37.8) | 37 (44.6) | 1 (3.1) | 1 (3.6) | 1 (2.9) | 183 (100.0) | 158 (97.5) | 100 (97.1) |
Traditional healer | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (21.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Others | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 16 (50.0) | 4 (11.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |