Health service underutilization and its associated factors for chronic diseases patients in poverty-stricken areas in China: a multilevel analysis

• Main Authors: Haiyan Hu (Author), Weiyan Jian (Author), Hongqiao Fu (Author), Hao Zhang (Author), Jay Pan (Author), Winnie Yip (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Underutilization of health services among chronic non-communicable disease sufferers, especially for hypertension (HBP) and diabetes mellitus (DM), was considered as a significant contributing factor to substantial cases in terms of both avoidable morbidity and mortality. However...