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Cost of malaria treatment and health seeking behaviour of children under-five years in the Upper West Region of Ghana

BACKGROUND: There is limited knowledge on cost of treating malaria in children under-five years in northern Ghana which poses a challenge in determining whether interventions such as the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) have reduced the...

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Autores principales:	Dalaba, Maxwell Ayindenaba, Welaga, Paul, Oduro, Abraham, Danchaka, Laata Latif, Matsubara, Chieko
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898715/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29652938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195533

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