Private health care market shaping and changes in inequities in childhood diarrhoea treatment coverage: evidence from the analysis of baseline and endline surveys of an ORS and zinc scale-up program in Nigeria

• Main Authors: Tiwadayo Braimoh (Author), Isaac Danat (Author), Mohammed Abubakar (Author), Obinna Ajeroh (Author), Melinda Stanley (Author), Owens Wiwa (Author), Marta Rose Prescott (Author), Felix Lam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Nearly 90,000 under-five children die from diarrhoea annually in Nigeria. Over 90% of the deaths can be prevented with oral rehydration salt (ORS) and zinc treatment but coverage nationally was less than 34% for ORS and 3% for zinc with wide inequities. A program was implemented...