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Treatment choices for fevers in children under-five years in a rural Ghanaian district

BACKGROUND: Health care demand studies help to examine the behaviour of individuals and households during illnesses. Few of existing health care demand studies examine the choice of treatment services for childhood illnesses. Besides, in their analyses, many of the existing studies compare alternati...

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Autores principales:	Nonvignon, Justice, Aikins, Moses KS, Chinbuah, Margaret A, Abbey, Mercy, Gyapong, Margaret, Garshong, Bertha NA, Fia, Saviour, Gyapong, John O
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2010
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2914057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20584280 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-9-188

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