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

• Autors principals: Merrin E Rutherford (Autor), John D Dockerty (Autor), Momodou Jasseh (Autor), Stephen RC Howie (Autor), Peter Herbison (Autor), David J Jeffries (Autor), Melissa Leach (Autor), Warren Stevens (Autor), Kim Mulholland (Autor), Richard A Adegbola (Autor), Philip C Hill (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: The World Health Organization, 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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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...