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

• Egile Nagusiak: Merrin E Rutherford (Egilea), John D Dockerty (Egilea), Momodou Jasseh (Egilea), Stephen RC Howie (Egilea), Peter Herbison (Egilea), David J Jeffries (Egilea), Melissa Leach (Egilea), Warren Stevens (Egilea), Kim Mulholland (Egilea), Richard A Adegbola (Egilea), Philip C Hill (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: The World Health Organization, 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...