A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEALTH CARE SEEKING BEHAVIOUR AMONG ADULT MALE AND FEMALE POPULATION RESIDING IN SLUMS OF GUWAHATI CITY
Subhra Sarma, Jhankar Hazarika, Kumaril Goswami, Jutika Ojah, Achyut Chandra Baishya- General Medicine
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Primary Health Care is a whole-of-society approach to health that aims at ensuring the highest possible level of health and well-being and their equitable distribution by focusing on people's needs and as early as possible along the continuum from health promotion and disease prevention to treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care, and as close as feasible to .(1) people's everyday environment . In spite of large number of doctors and para-clinical staffs in urban areas, the existing health care infrastructure in urban areas is insufcient to meet the basic health care needs of growing urban poor population. Health of an individual is inuenced by lot of factors including social, environmental, genetic and others. Current views of health and illness recognize health as more (2) than absence of disease.