Majority of respondents visits the doctor 1 or 2 times a year.
Patients mostly visit medical institutions, after decease exacerbates.
In the scope of survey conducted in Georgia, number of issues related to the citizens’ health care were studied, among them intensity of doctor visits, reasons for these visits, etc. 400 respondents participated in the survey.
Survey results showed that the majority of respondents (58%) visits medical institutions 1 or 2 times a year. 18% of the respondents visits doctors 3 or 4 times a year, while 24% makes such visits 5 times a year or more.
Decease exacerbation was named the most frequent reason for visiting a doctor (43%), while only 24% of the respondents goes to the doctor when first symptoms appears and those people whose main reason for going to medical institutions are prophylactic visits make up 33% of the respondents.
As it turned out, large part of the respondents (34%) makes no doctor visits for prophylactic reasons during the year.
Those respondents who said that they never visit doctors for prophylactic reasons or visit them less frequently then once a year, also named the reasons. Main reason named by the respondents (44.3%) are financial difficulties.
34.3% thinks that when nothing bothers them there’s no reason for a prophylactic visit, while for 21.4% absence of time is the main reason. The data is also interesting in gender section. It turns out men don’t visit doctors for prophylactic reasons mainly because they don’t consider it necessary/nothing is bothering them (48%), while for women main reason for not making such visits is financial difficulties (49%)