Health is important and money is not matter, if people are concerned for the treatment of various ailments. A collective acceptance with regard to hospital usage is that most of the people prefer to use private hospitals even if the cost of private hospital tends to be high. Public hospitals are not preferred due to poorer quality of their services, even though these services are provided at low cost. At the time of independence, nearly 15% of the people used private sector. In a recent study by World Bank, it has been found that about 80% of the people use the private hospitals in India. In order to understand the preference of hospitals of ailing persons, we make use of the National Sample Survey Organization's 60 th round data on morbidity and health-care conducted in 2004. Using this data, we irst described the demographic, social and economic characteristics of person who use the hospitals. We have also used primary data collecting during May-September 2010 in Bundelkhand region, Uttar Pradesh. There were 360 farmers have interviewed from three villages from each Banda and Hamirpur districts. We have tried to understand the preference of hospital usage among the migrant and non-migrant households. We have found that migrant households preferred private hospital for any type of treatment whereas nonmigrant households still have faith on herbal and magician for the treatment. Migrant household preferred institutional delivery and spent money on healthy food such as fruits and vegetables. Migrant households were more health conscious and more exposed about the health awareness programs such as polio, immunization and health check-up of the children. Interesting to note that migrants households have irst aid box and some general medicine such paracetamol, B-complex table and syrup. Some of them have thermometer and they are able to measure the body temperature and apply medicine to control fever if any time appeared among the member of households.
To achieve MDGs, it is important to understand ailing and hospitalization that occurs in India. In this regard, data were used from two surveys of NSSO's, i.e., 52 nd round and 60 th round which were collected in 1995-1996 and 2004. Some research has been carried out to examine ailing and hospitalization, but, they were only village level/district level or state level studies. Studies on ailing and hospitalization for all India are few.There are a number of factors that influence ailing and hospitalization such as demographic (age, sex, and residence), social (religion, social group, and marital status), household (structure, source of drinking water, water treatment, and availability of latrine, drainage facility, and source of energy for cooking), and economic (education, activity status, and landholding). Multivariate analyses were used for examining the relationships. The overall odds ratio of logistic regression shows that the Hindus, never married people have higher chance of ailing and hospitalization in India. As expected young males residing in urban areas have lower chance of ailing and hospitalization. Southern and western people of India were more likely to be ailing and hospitalized than persons in other parts of India.
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