Factors affecting utilization of outpatient healthcare services among the elderly population in Butiama and Musoma districts, Tanzania: A community-based cross-sectional study

• Magnus Michael Sichalwe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Magnus Michael Sichalwe, Chrisostom Charles Mwesiga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Family Welfare, Primary Health and Preventive Services Organisation, Morogoro, Tanzania, Department of Community Health, Butiama District Hospital, Butiama, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1527-404X

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• Chrisostom Charles Mwesiga ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Magnus Michael Sichalwe, Chrisostom Charles Mwesiga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chrissmwec@gmail.com

  Affiliations Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, African Medical and Research Foundation, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4332-3413

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• Anna Tengia Kessy,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, School of Public Health and Social Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Manas Ranjan Behera

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology Deemed to Be University, School of Public Health, Odisha, India

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4785-5949

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