Mobile medical camps (MMCs) are common in Nepal, as well as other parts of
the world. MMCs in Nepal provide health care resources that are not available through
the government health system, due to Nepal’s weak health infrastructure. Although
MMCs are problematic for a variety of reasons, they continue to play a role in health care
delivery in remote settings the world over. Despite the fact that MMCs are increasingly
common in many countries around the world, their patient populations and their health
outcomes are poorly understood. This thesis is an analysis of socioeconomic influences
within a select group of patients who sought health care from MMCs in Humla district of
northwest Nepal. This thesis was written with the goal of better understanding how a
person’s socioeconomic status (SES) affects their health care seeking behavior via the
vehicle of mobile medical camps.