About this Research Topic
The utilization of child health services depends on the various critical issues such as quality and accessibility of the current healthcare system, geography, cost, insurance, policy, and other social determinants. Unavailability of complete healthcare infrastructure, is the foremost cause of premature death and poor child health quality in low and middle income countries.
This Research Topic will examine the current status, and trends of child health care utilization, identification of the barriers in the health care accessibility and consequences in the child health outcomes in low and middle-income countries. Articles submitted on these issues could be critical in developing a complete and central health care infrastructure.
We welcome research on, but not limited to, the following themes:
1. The trends and the current status of child health care utilization in the low and middle-income countries
2. Social determinants of the underutilization of child health care services
3. Partnership model between public and private institutions and accessibility of child health care services
4. Variation in the geographical locations, healthcare infrastructure, accessibility, and their associations with the child health outcome (premature death, poor quality of life, and other critical outcomes)
5. Healthcare cost, insurance, and accessibility
6. Government/institutional policy and utilization of child health care services
7. Critical challenges for the accessibility of health care services and strategies towards the success
8. Global health partnerships towards the progress of complete and central healthcare infrastructure to increase child health care services utilization.
This Research Topic will examine the current status, and trends of child health care utilization, identification of the barriers in the health care accessibility and consequences in the child health outcomes in low and middle-income countries. Articles submitted on these issues could be critical in developing a complete and central health care infrastructure.
We welcome research on, but not limited to, the following themes:
1. The trends and the current status of child health care utilization in the low and middle-income countries
2. Social determinants of the underutilization of child health care services
3. Partnership model between public and private institutions and accessibility of child health care services
4. Variation in the geographical locations, healthcare infrastructure, accessibility, and their associations with the child health outcome (premature death, poor quality of life, and other critical outcomes)
5. Healthcare cost, insurance, and accessibility
6. Government/institutional policy and utilization of child health care services
7. Critical challenges for the accessibility of health care services and strategies towards the success
8. Global health partnerships towards the progress of complete and central healthcare infrastructure to increase child health care services utilization.
Keywords: Health care utilization, child health, immunization, social determinants, inequality
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