Unmet Health Needs among Sohag University Students | ||||
| Sohag Medical Journal | ||||
| Volume 28, Issue 2., 2024, Page 82-90 PDF (1.08 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/smj.2024.266254.1449 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Mariam Elshmandy  1; Fouad M.A. Yousef2; Tasneem Bakheet3
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| 1Public health department,sohg university | ||||
| 2Public health and community medicine | ||||
| 3public health department,sohag university | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: The gap between the amount of healthcare services believed to be required to treat a particular medical problem and the services actually received is referred to as unmet health needs. Objectives: This study aimed at studying the unmet health needs among university students and their causes: either problems of service availability or accessibility or acceptability. Method: it is a cross-sectional study including 435 university students in Sohag University, the University students were randomly chosen by a stratified random sample from randomly selected 4 faculties. The study was done using a questionnaire in the academic year 2023. Results: This study was performed on 435 university students, of whom (44.1%) reported unmet health needs. As regard causes of unmet health needs, 70.8% of those who had unmet health needs reported acceptability problems, while 68.2% reported service availability problems. Conclusions: The highest percentage of the studied population who had unmet health needs reported that there were service acceptability problems and then, the availability problems. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Unmet health needs; availability; accessibility; acceptability problems Introduction: | ||||
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