Determining health-care facility catchment areas in Uganda using data on malaria-related visits

Objective To illustrate the use of a new method for defining the catchment areas of health-care facilities based on their utilization. Methods The catchment areas of six health-care facilities in Uganda were determined using the cumulative case ratio: the ratio of the observed to expected utilizat...

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Main Authors: Kate Zinszer, Katia Charland, Ruth Kigozi, Grant Dorsey, Moses R Kamya, David L Buckeridge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2014-03-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862014000300178&lng=en&tlng=en