Optimization
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

An empirical study on measuring the perception for selected health care services provided by primary health care centers (PHCs) in the selected villages of Vadodara district

  • Author:
  • Bhumit A. Shah1,*, Parag Shukla2
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Published Online: Jul 4, 2023
  • Page Number: 14 to 28

1Research Scholar, Department of Commerce and Business Management, Faculty of Commerce, The M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda-390020, Gujarat, India

2Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce and Business Management, Faculty of Commerce, The M.S. University of Baroda, Baroda-390020, Gujarat, India

*Corresponding author email id: bhumit.shah333@gmail.com

Online Published on 5 July, 2023.

Abstract

India is currently in a good position to design a particularly Indian set of health reforms to help the health system meet the growing demands of its consumers and personnel. There are several managerial obstacles to ensuring availability, access, affordability, and equity in delivering health services to fulfil community requirements efficiently and effectively for Healthy India’s Sustainable Development. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyse the opinions of users who avail of services offered by Primary Health Centres (PHCs) in selected villages of Vadodara District. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the hypothesis is assessed by using Chi Square test as well as Friedman Rank Test was applied to know the preferences and measure perception of users considering the selected criteria of services offered by the PHCs.

Keywords

Healthcare, Sustainable development, Primary health centers (PHCs), Equity, Health reforms