Health Seeking Behaviour and the Indian Health System

Health is influenced by an array of factors including social, environmental, genetic and a host of other factors. Current views of health and illness recognize health as more than absence of disease. The concept of ‘health seeking behavior' has gained popularity in recent years as an important tool for exploring and understanding patient preferences ,strategies people use to decide which option to use at which stage of illness, delays in diagnosis and actions across a variety of health conditions