The overall aim of the Formative Research was to assess the status of urban Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC) in Mysuru city. This part of the pre-final report, covering the quantitative survey conducted by St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore, addresses several specific objectives: identifying and exploring the role of key stakeholders in the provision of urban primary health care, describing the status of urban comprehensive primary healthcare (UPHC) in Mysuru city at three different levels—health systems, facility, and community.

At the health system level, the research examines the capacity for designing, developing, implementing, and monitoring urban primary health care in Mysuru city. For public and private health facilities, it assesses readiness for delivering preventive and non-domiciliary curative primary health care in urban Mysuru. Additionally, it profiles the community morbidity status, healthcare-seeking behaviors, and costs incurred for selected acute and chronic conditions in urban wards of Mysuru city. The study also aims to identify and explain barriers and facilitators to comprehensive Primary Health Care.