Geographic access to care is not a determinant of child mortality in a rural Kenyan setting with high health facility density
Open Access
- 17 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 10 (1) , 142
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-142
Abstract
Policy-makers evaluating country progress towards the Millennium Development Goals also examine trends in health inequities. Distance to health facilities is a known determinant of health care utilization and may drive inequalities in health outcomes; we aimed to investigate its effects on childhood mortality.Keywords
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