Geographic access to care is not a determinant of child mortality in a rural Kenyan setting with high health facility density

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mosi, Jennifer C ^a,b   Gatakaa, Hellen ^b   Noor, Abdisalan M ^b   Williams, Thomas N ^b,c   Bauni, Evasius ^b   Tsofa, Benjamin ^d   Levine, Orin S ^a   Scott, J Anthony G ^b,c  

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

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^c JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d District Medical Officer for Health   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KENYA; MALE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRAVEL;

CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; KENYA; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 77950555443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-142     Document Type: Article

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