A Study on Healthcare Access and Utilization with special reference to Textile Women Workers in Coimbatore District of Tamil Nadu

Sound health is a primary requirement for living a socially and economically productive life. Poor health inflicts great hardships on households, including debilitation, substantial monetary expenditures, and loss of labour and sometimes deceases. Health care seeking behaviour is influenced by a variety of socio-economic variables, including sex, age, the social status of women, the type of illness, access to services and perceived quality of the service etc. The present study would be useful for estimating the demand for health care services in future. The number of people, affected by various diseases, is on the increase. It would bring out the availability and adequacy of health facilities in the study area. The present study is based on primary data. The study area is Coimbatore City. The data collected from the sample of 150 respondents by using simple random sampling method. The data was collected from five textile units. The collected data were analyzed with the help of SPSS/windows version 20.0.To conclude that the study establishes that in this age of inflation and higher costs of treatment, subsidized public health care services are extremely critical for achieving the objective of universal healthcare. Policy makers must make efforts to ensure that budgetary allocations might be sufficient as per the need. Considering the current lack of access to quality, rational and affordable healthcare for the majority of the urban poor and organised sector workers the universal health coverage in India is an urgent necessity