Accessibility of basic paediatric emergency care in Malawi: analysis of a national facility census

• Main Authors: Emily White Johansson (Author), Cecilia Lindsjö (Author), Daniel J. Weiss (Author), Humphreys Nsona (Author), Katarina Ekholm Selling (Author), Norman Lufesi (Author), Helena Hildenwall (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Emergency care is among the weakest parts of health systems in low-income countries with both quality and accessibility constraints. Previous studies estimated accessibility to surgical or emergency care based on population travel times to nearest hospital with no assessment of h...