caa a22 4500 467898731 CHVBK 20180406152811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-9001-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-9001-8 The determinants of primary health care utilization: a comparison of three rural clinics in Southern Honduras [Elektronische Daten] [Jonathan Baker, Lin Liu] Primary health care utilization is poorly understood in many parts of the developing world. This is especially true in rural places, such as Santa Lucia, Intibuca, Honduras, where there are only three primary health care facilities servicing almost 12,000 people, and generally speaking access to care is limited. This study examines the factors that can be used to explain primary health care utilization, and aims to improve the understanding of patient utilization behavior. A better understanding of utilization can be used by health service planners to improve primary health care delivery in this and similar locations. The findings of this research indicate that utilization can be explained, to a large extent, by factors relating to economic status and walking time to clinic. These findings are consistent with findings from prior research. In addition, a home territory variable is used to examine spatial variations of utilization behavior. This variable has not been considered in previous utilization research, and is found to be a very significant determinant of health facility utilization in the study area. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Access nationallicence Health services nationallicence Honduras nationallicence Central America nationallicence Rural nationallicence Utilization nationallicence Baker Jonathan Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, 401 Braunstein Hall, 45221, Cincinnati, OH, USA aut Liu Lin Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, 401 Braunstein Hall, 45221, Cincinnati, OH, USA aut GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/4(2006-08-01), 295-310 0343-2521 66:4<295 2006 66 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9001-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9001-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Baker Jonathan Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, 401 Braunstein Hall, 45221, Cincinnati, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liu Lin Department of Geography, University of Cincinnati, 401 Braunstein Hall, 45221, Cincinnati, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Springer Netherlands 66/4(2006-08-01), 295-310 0343-2521 66:4<295 2006 66 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer