Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case-control study

Access to health care and mortality of children under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case-control study

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether traditional measures of access to health care (distance and travel time to a facility) and non-traditional measures (social and financial support indicators) are associated with mortality among children under 5 years of age in the Gambia. METHODS: We conducted a case-con...

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Main Authors: Merrin E Rutherford, John D Dockerty, Momodou Jasseh, Stephen RC Howie, Peter Herbison, David J Jeffries, Melissa Leach, Warren Stevens, Kim Mulholland, Richard A Adegbola, Philip C Hill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2009-03-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862009000300016&lng=en&tlng=en

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