| Unmet Healthcare Needs | |
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When health care needs were perceived as such | When healthcare needs were unperceived | |
Usually recognised as unmet needs: | Treatment not received at all: Examples ¬ 12.75% of people suffering from acute ailments in the last 15 days did not take treatment at all. ¬ 18.40% of people having chronic conditions did not take treatment | Latent diseases: Examples ¬ In terms of preventive healthcare needs, 47.42% of individual (30 years or above age) never had their blood pressure measured before in their lifetime. Similarly, 72.17% never had their blood glucose measured before. ¬ 95% of those identified with likelihood of depression had not sought any healthcare to get the diagnosis or treatment as they did not know they could be suffering from depression. |
Measurable but often ignored as an unmet need: | Treatment taken from an unqualified informal provider: ¬ 27.83% of people suffering from acute ailments in the last 15 days took treatment from the informal provider. ¬ 9.06% of people having a chronic condition in the last 365 days took treatment from the informal provider. | Incomplete care: ¬ Patients suffering from chronic conditions discontinued medicine for an average of 6.06 months out of the past 12 months. |
Difficult to measure and often ignored: | Inappropriate care by formal provider and the patient could report inappropriate care when asked | Inappropriate care by formal provider but the patient was unable to assess whether it was appropriate or not |