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government for meeting the health care costs of patients.Recognizing these limitations, this study assessed the type of health care services people commonly use in various illnesses and thesociodemographic correlates of the preferred health care services by household heads in six rural communities of North CentralNigeria. A cross-sectional community-based descriptive study design was used to study 154 household heads in the settlementsusing a multistage sampling method. Multiple logistic regressions were performed to investigate independent predictors that hadsignificant chi-square at ???? < 0.05. The leading causes of illness experienced by respondents were medical conditions (42.0%) and41.7% of them sought treatment from patent medicine vendors. The dominant reasons for health-seeking preferences were financialaccess (53.7%) and proximity (48.6%). Age had a higher impact (Beta = 0.892) on the health-seeking preferences of the respondentsas compared to their occupation and religion (Beta = 0.368 and −0.746, resp.). Therefore, in order to meet the health care of patients,
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