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The focus of the social science research on child health indeveloping countries is mainly confined in identifying the underlyingdeterminants of morbidity and mortality. The underlying determinants oftreatment seeking behavior during common childhood illnesses largelyremain unexplored though it is an outcome of interactions among anumber of spatial. demographic and socioeconomic factors. Treatmentseeking in either the public or the private medical sector is also importantas motivation to seek quality treatment by incurring cost associated with it.Using data from National Family and Health Survey (NFHS-2), 1998-99,this paper tries to identify various factors. which might have direct orindirect linkages with treatment seeking behavior during commonchildhood illnesses. The result of multinomial logistic regressions show thatspatial factors like region and place of residence demographic factors likechild's age, birth order and sex of the child and socioeconomic factorssuch as maternal education. standard of living of the household, religionanti caste. work status of the mother and exposure to mass media aresignificantly associated with treatment seeking behavior, especially inseeking treatment front private medical sector. |
