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Improving equity in malaria treatment: Relationship of socio-economic status with health seeking as well as with perceptions of ease of using the services of different providers for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Equitable improvement of treatment-seeking for malaria will depend partly on how different socio-economic groups perceive the ease of accessing and utilizing malaria treatment services from different healthcare providers. Hence, it was important to investigate the link between socioecono...

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Autores principales:	Onwujekwe, Obinna, Uzochukwu, Benjamin, Eze, Soludo, Obikeze, Eric, Okoli, Chijioke, Ochonma, Ogbonnia
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2008
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2249588/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18182095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-5

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