> Patients from Tando Allah Yar reported a mean 3.8 visits to a healthcare provider by a member of their household during the previous month,
This seems like an excessive number of doctor visits, too. I can’t imagine a household where someone is going to the doctor almost every week. 45 doctor visits a year and they’re getting injections (of what?) most of the time?
I, as someone broadly healthy and who has barely used healthcare services, asked to see my health records recently.
I was shocked to see 500+ 'interactions' between me and the healthcare provider! However it turns out the majority of those interactions are very minor things - ie. "Patient received text message reminder about appointment". "Patient was sent letter with test results" etc.
When you count interactions like that, you can get a big number fast.
Member of household = significantly bigger. I believe your numbers suggest a household size of 1 person. I also would suggest that most likely old people live with their families, and skew towards "which member" of the household went to the doctor.
Well, with such a low mean age it could also be very young people skewing the number, im fully speculating.
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This seems like an excessive number of doctor visits, too. I can’t imagine a household where someone is going to the doctor almost every week. 45 doctor visits a year and they’re getting injections (of what?) most of the time?
I, as someone broadly healthy and who has barely used healthcare services, asked to see my health records recently.
I was shocked to see 500+ 'interactions' between me and the healthcare provider! However it turns out the majority of those interactions are very minor things - ie. "Patient received text message reminder about appointment". "Patient was sent letter with test results" etc.
When you count interactions like that, you can get a big number fast.
Member of household = significantly bigger. I believe your numbers suggest a household size of 1 person. I also would suggest that most likely old people live with their families, and skew towards "which member" of the household went to the doctor.
Well, with such a low mean age it could also be very young people skewing the number, im fully speculating.