Health Seeking Behavior of Rajbanshi Community

Nepal is a country of multi cultural, multi-religious, multi-lingual, pluralistic and mosaic society. Ethnic communities have their own distinct healing practices. It has been widely felt that access of modern medication in the rural as well as in urban community is very low; despite the service outlets have been made available even at periphery level by government. Health Care practices -Modern, Traditional, Self-medication, Alternative are existed in almost each and every community, are indispensable part of our health system. Merely establishment of Sub-Health Post, training for Health Workers cannot ensure the access of health service, also requires attempt on the Socio-economic assessment, cultural and behavioural diagnosis. Rajbanshi are one of the ethnic groups, living in Morang and Jhapa districts. Their estimated population is fairly above than 0.1 million (CBS, 1991). This study was an exploratory, descriptive, cross-sectional, and qualitative study based on household survey. Study has assessed the disease prevalence, healing or caring practices and determinants of health seeking behaviour.

尼泊尔，一个多元文化、多宗教、多语言、多元一体且色彩斑斓的社会国家。各民族群体拥有独特的疗愈实践。普遍感知到，无论是农村还是城市社区，现代医疗的获取率均十分低下；尽管政府已在边缘地区设立了医疗服务点。在现代、传统、自我药疗、替代医学等医疗实践在几乎每个社区中均存在，成为我们健康体系不可或缺的一部分。仅仅建立基层卫生站、对卫生工作者进行培训，并不能确保医疗服务获取的便利性，还必须致力于社会经济发展评估、文化及行为诊断。拉贾班希族是居住在莫朗和贾帕地区的少数民族之一，其估计人口超过一百万（CBS，1991年）。本研究基于家庭调查，是一项探索性、描述性、横断面和定性研究，旨在评估疾病流行率、疗愈或护理实践以及寻求健康服务行为的影响因素。