A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY OF UTILIZATION OF PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRE SERVICES: A CASE STUDY OF ALIGARH DISTRICT

Primary Health Centre (PHC) is the most vital constituent of Public Health Care System as it is the first place of interaction between the populations and the Public Health System. The government is trying to expand the delivery of health care services through various programmes, so as to improve the health status of people. The most important aspect of the success of health programmes is the extent of availing of public health services by the people. Thus, it would be essential to determine the reasons which help in better availability of public health care service by individuals particularly at PHC level, so that health for all is achieved. As the government is trying to address health issues of rural through National Rural Health Mission 2005, there is need to examine whether there is any association between the types of services and socio-economic variables of PHC, Jawaan Block of Aligarh District. The study also tries to know about people’s knowledge about NRHM programme. The present paper tries to address these questions by using, statistical measures; simple percentage analysis, averages and the Pearson’s Chi-square test for independence has been used to test the hypotheses. The study found significant association between the marital status, education, income and type of services. Gender, age, occupation and type of services doesn’t show any significance. However in instance of socio-economic variable and knowledge about NRHM there is no significant association only income shows the significant association.