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

BACKGROUND: 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...

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Autores principales:	Moïsi, Jennifer C, Gatakaa, Hellen, Noor, Abdisalan M, Williams, Thomas N, Bauni, Evasius, Tsofa, Benjamin, Levine, Orin S, Scott, J Anthony G
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2010
Materias:	Research article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848200/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20236537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-142

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