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Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia

One of the dimensions of multidimensional poverty as well as quality of life is access to healthcare services. Lower income households are often associated with poorer health conditions, making accessibility to healthcare even more important. Nonetheless, in accessing healthcare services, this group...

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Main Authors: Siti Norasikin Abd Wahab,, NurulHuda Mohd Satar,, Makmor Tumin,
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020
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spelling my-ukm.journal.146152020-05-14T06:04:28Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14615/ Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia Siti Norasikin Abd Wahab, NurulHuda Mohd Satar, Makmor Tumin, One of the dimensions of multidimensional poverty as well as quality of life is access to healthcare services. Lower income households are often associated with poorer health conditions, making accessibility to healthcare even more important. Nonetheless, in accessing healthcare services, this group of households often faces more significant personal, financial and structural barriers compared to families from higher income groups. This study focuses on structural barrier from socio-demographic factors that affects access to public clinics among the urban poor. The respondents of this study were residents of Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) in Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaires were distributed to 585 respondents selected systematically from 30 PPRs. The results from the regression estimates that urban poor who are married, divorced, the spouse has passed away with monthly income less than RM 1000 are facing higher structural barrier in accessing the public clinics. Government is suggested to increase the operation hour of the public clinics as well as making effort to set up mobile kiosk clinic for urban poor live far and cannot reach the public clinics in their areas. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14615/1/39061-124030-1-SM.pdf Siti Norasikin Abd Wahab, and NurulHuda Mohd Satar, and Makmor Tumin, (2020) Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia. e-BANGI: Jurnal Sains Sosial dan Kemanusiaan, 17 (3). pp. 71-81. ISSN 1823-884x http://ejournals.ukm.my/ebangi/issue/view/1261
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description One of the dimensions of multidimensional poverty as well as quality of life is access to healthcare services. Lower income households are often associated with poorer health conditions, making accessibility to healthcare even more important. Nonetheless, in accessing healthcare services, this group of households often faces more significant personal, financial and structural barriers compared to families from higher income groups. This study focuses on structural barrier from socio-demographic factors that affects access to public clinics among the urban poor. The respondents of this study were residents of Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) in Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaires were distributed to 585 respondents selected systematically from 30 PPRs. The results from the regression estimates that urban poor who are married, divorced, the spouse has passed away with monthly income less than RM 1000 are facing higher structural barrier in accessing the public clinics. Government is suggested to increase the operation hour of the public clinics as well as making effort to set up mobile kiosk clinic for urban poor live far and cannot reach the public clinics in their areas.
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author Siti Norasikin Abd Wahab,
NurulHuda Mohd Satar,
Makmor Tumin,
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NurulHuda Mohd Satar,
Makmor Tumin,
Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia
author_facet Siti Norasikin Abd Wahab,
NurulHuda Mohd Satar,
Makmor Tumin,
author_sort Siti Norasikin Abd Wahab,
title Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia
title_short Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia
title_full Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia
title_fullStr Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in Malaysia
title_sort socio-demographic factors and structural barrier in accessing public clinics among the urban poor in malaysia
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2020
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14615/1/39061-124030-1-SM.pdf
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