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

• Main Authors: Merrin E Rutherford (Author), John D Dockerty (Author), Momodou Jasseh (Author), Stephen RC Howie (Author), Peter Herbison (Author), David J Jeffries (Author), Melissa Leach (Author), Warren Stevens (Author), Kim Mulholland (Author), Richard A Adegbola (Author), Philip C Hill (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...