Injection Practices in the Third World: A Case Study in Thailand - EDM Research Series No. 011
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Table of Contents
View the documentCHAPTER ONE - 1. AIM AND OBJECTIVES
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View the document5.1 Treatment strategies
View the document5.2 Number of households
View the document5.3 Type of injections
View the document5.4 Children and injections
View the document5.5 Gender and injections
View the document5.6 Injections per treatment provider
View the document5.7 Injections and specific illness conditions
View the document5.8 Number of drugs
View the document5.9 Unknown drugs
View the document5.10 Summary
Open this folder and view contentsCHAPTER SIX - 6. RESULTS: THE CAUSAL AND CONTEXTUAL FACTORS IN THE POPULARITY OF INJECTIONS
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5.3 Type of injections

The number of households in which at least one member had received one of the following types of injections is given below:

Immunizations:

1

Contraceptive:

0

Therapeutic:

50

IV fluid/infusion:

12

The total number of households, which fulfill the above criteria, is 63 because some households are counted in more than one category.

Re immunizations: in general the questions related to therapeutic injections; therefore there may have been more immunizations than one. However, immunizations tend to take place periodically.

Re contraceptives: the public health policy is to give oral contraceptives for 3 years and then to give contraceptive injections the next 3 years.

Re therapeutic: therapeutic injections also include vitamin injections administered for complaints such as headache and tiredness. Furthermore, the number 50 only reflects the number of households in which one or more members received an injection. It obscures the fact that there were sometimes more than one member receiving injections and that people often received more than one injection per illness case.

Re IV fluid/infusions: many of the people who received IV fluid also received injections, either separately or into the IV fluid. There is therefore some double counting.

The percentage of households which received therapeutic injections therefore becomes 50 × 100/209 = 23.92%

The percentage of households which received IV fluid therefore becomes 12 × 100/209 = 5.74%

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