Choice of Primary Health Care Providers among Population in Urban Areas of Low- and Middle-Income Countries – A Protocol for Systematic review of literature

BMC Systematic Reviews 2024

Authors: Md. Zahid Hasan, Edward J D Webb, Zahidul Quayyum & Tim Ensor (2024)

Strengthening and reforming the urban primary healthcare (PHC) system is essential to efficiently deliver need-based healthcare services to the rapidly increasing urban poor population. Such reforms of  the PHC system need to emphasise the opinion of patients in co-designing services in order that the delivery of services can be accessed effectively by the urban population in a timely and low-cost way. This protocol plans a systematic review of existing evidence on attributes considered by urban residents in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) when selected PHC providers.

The identification of attributes, their influence on preference, and heterogeneity with socioeconomic characteristics of the population will help the policymakers and researchers to design targeted PHC interventions. Such evidence will be also useful to design choice experiment studies to quantify the preferred attributes of PHC providers in urban context of LMICs.

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