Health insurance and child mortality in rural Burkina Faso

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Schoeps, Anja ^a   Lietz, Henrike ^a   Sié, Ali ^b   Savadogo, Germain ^b   De Allegri, Manuela ^a   Müller, Olaf ^a   Sauerborn, Rainer ^a   Becher, Heiko ^a,c   Souares, Aurélia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN SANTÉ DE NOUNA   (Burkina Faso)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa south of the sahara; Burkina Faso; Child mortality; Health insurance; Health services accessibility; Population surveillance; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

BURKINA FASO; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INSURANCE; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BURKINA FASO; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84930632088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.27327     Document Type: Article

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