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

• Main Authors: Kate Zinszer (Author), Katia Charland (Author), Ruth Kigozi (Author), Grant Dorsey (Author), Moses R Kamya (Author), David L Buckeridge (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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 utilizatio...