health care providers | Visiteda (%) | Motivationb (%)c | Helpfulness (%)c | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Acute illness | Long-term illness | Improvement of well-being | Very | somewhat | Not at all | Don’t know | ||
Family practitioner | 664 (37.51) | 466 (70.18) | 158 (23.79) | 34 (5.12) | 313 (47.13) | 303 (45.63) | 45 (6.77) | 3 (0.45) |
General Physician | 518 (29.26) | 381 (73.55) | 124 23.93 | 19 (3.66) | 218 (42.08) | 285 (55.01) | 15 (2.89) | 0 (0.00) |
Specialist Physician | 670 (37.85) | 191 (28.50) | 419 (62.53) | 14 (2.08) | 302 (45.07) | 330 (49.25) | 11 (1.64) | 2 (0.29) |
Nutritionist | 19 (1.07) | 6 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Traditional medicine healer | 67 (3.78) | 19 (28.35) | 33 (49.25) | 17 (25.37) | 21 (31.34) | 30 (44.77) | 13 (19.40) | 3 (4.4) |
Acupuncturist | 9 (0.50) | 2 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Bone setter | 14 (0.79) | 13 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Massage practitioner | 14 (0.79) | 1 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Other | 9 (0.50) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 |