The role of private providers in treating child diarrhoea in Latin America

Health Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 21-29

  Waters, Hugh R ^a   Hatt, Laurel E ^a   Black, Robert E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health; Diarrhoeal disease; Latin America; Private providers

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION;

ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DIARRHEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECUADOR; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NICARAGUA; PANAMA; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

BICARBONATES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PRIVATE SECTOR; PUBLIC SECTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 38949208439     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1239     Document Type: Article

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