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Table 3 Initial themes explored during interviews and FGDs

From: “Everything is provided free, but they are still hesitant to access healthcare services”: why does the indigenous community in Attapadi, Kerala continue to experience poor access to healthcare?

Community

Healthcare providers

• Experience of managing ill health in the family/for self

• Perception of needs and healthcare requirement

• Initial management of healthcare (if any)

• Previous arrangements including the use of alternative systems

• Experience of seeking formal healthcare

• Experience at health facilities

• Facilitators for seeking healthcare

• Challenges faced in obtaining care

• Experience after obtaining care/follow up

• Opinion on healthcare facilities/ services being provided

• Details on the organisation of health care services

• Facilitators of healthcare provision

• Challenges faced in providing care

• Strategies to improve access to healthcare

• Opinion on the role of alternative systems in enabling healthcare access