The two faces of enhancing utilization of health-care services: determinants of patient initiation and retention in rural Burkina Faso

OBJECTIVE: To explore the factors that determine whether a patient will initiate treatment within a system of health-care services, and the factors that determine whether the patient will be retained in the chosen system, in Nouna, rural Burkina Faso. METHODS: The data used were pooled from four rou...

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Main Authors: Frederick Mugisha, Kouyate Bocar, Hengjin Dong, Gloria Chepng'eno, Rainer Sauerborn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2004-08-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862004000800006&lng=en&tlng=en