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Health-seeking behaviour in the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: results from a cross-sectional household survey

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, April 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
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Title
Health-seeking behaviour in the city of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo: results from a cross-sectional household survey
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, April 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-14-173
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Authors

Mukalenge F Chenge, Jean Van der Vennet, Numbi O Luboya, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Mala A Mapatano, Bart Criel

Abstract

Concerns about the occurrence of disease among household members generally initiate treatment-seeking actions. This study aims to identify the various treatment-seeking options of patients in Lubumbashi, analyze their health-seeking behaviour, identify determinants for the use of formal care, and analyze direct health care expenditure.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 109 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 19 17%
Student > Master 19 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 13%
Student > Postgraduate 11 10%
Other 6 5%
Other 23 21%
Unknown 18 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 31 28%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 14%
Social Sciences 9 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 4%
Psychology 4 4%
Other 25 23%
Unknown 22 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 January 2023.
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#3,665,343
of 25,292,378 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#1,693
of 8,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,078
of 233,559 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#22
of 129 outputs
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