Analysis of Status and Role of Primary Health Centre in Thoothukudi District

Journal Title: Journal of Social Welfare and Management - Year 2019, Vol 11, Issue 2

Abstract

The health sector inhabits an extremely significant location in safeguarding maintainable overall socio-economic development in developing countries. The current article is an attempt to analyse the perception of the patients as regards to the services and facilities in the primary health centres in Thoothukudi District. The main objectives of the study mentioned below: 1. To study the socio-economic background of the patients in Thoothukudi District. 2. To know the opinion about Primary Health Care facilities and services of PHGs. 3. To examine the level of satisfaction about PHC services. 4. To find out the monthly income and expenditure of the respondents. 5. To evaluate theimprovement of PHC Services. In order to perform the analysis on the socio-economic status of the patients, the villages of Thoothukudi district such as Mullakkadu, Kumaragiri, Mudivaithanenthal, Servakaran Madam and Korampallamselected. The simple random sampling technique used. Secondary data have collected from books, journals, newspapers, internet and periodicals. Percentage analysis, averages, standard deviation, t test, chi-square test, correlation, and probability analysis used. The data related to December 2018. The study reveals that the association between satisfaction of facilities and services of PHGs and socio-economic variables namely age, marital status and family income per month is significant at 5 percent level as the P value is less than 0.05. Hence, the null hypothesis rejected for these variables. The rest of the socioeconomic variables namely, sex, family size and educational qualification not significantly associated at 5 percent level with the satisfaction of facilities and services of PHGs. Hence, the null hypothesis has accepted for these variables. An effort has been made to control the significant relationship between the socioeconomic variable and improvement of PHC Services. It concluded that there are no significant relations between socio-economic variable and improvement of PHC Services.

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S. Kanthimathinathan

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  • EP ID EP654989
  • DOI 10.21088/jswm.0975.0231.11219.4
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How To Cite

S. Kanthimathinathan (2019). Analysis of Status and Role of Primary Health Centre in Thoothukudi District. Journal of Social Welfare and Management, 11(2), 87-91. https://www.europub.co.uk/articles/-A-654989