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Little is known about why many people diagnosed with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection fail to reach and stay within specialist care services. We used a Geographic Information System and logit regression to investigate whether travel-time to a specialist centre was associated with an increased...
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to be an important non-monetary barrier that impede utilization of health facilities. In this paper, we examine if access …
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Indonesia launched Jampersal in 2011, a nationwide program to accelerate the reduction of maternal and newborn deaths. The program was financed by central government revenues and provided free and comprehensive maternal and neonatal care with an emphasis on promoting institutional deliveries....
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Purpose – To achieve Goal 5 of the MDGs, the Government of Ghana introduced the free maternal health service system to … break financial barriers of access to maternal care services. In spite of this, facility-based deliveries continue to be low …
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attendance. In this study, we revisit this relation in the rural areas of four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania …
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frameworks, and business models to rapidly upscale access to sustainable energy. The top-down, central grid expansion approach to … increasing electricity access is very capital intensive and yet has gained considerable momentum at the expense of lower cost … designed to stimulate clean energy investments in Ghana. Though the examples are all from Ghana, they illustrate general …
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Oral diseases are one of the most common diseases globally, yet maximizing health benefits from available resources continues to be a pivotal challenge. Similar to recall appointments in many other medical settings, dental check-up examinations are an essential element of regular treatment....
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This study examines the association between maternal health service utilization and household decision-making in Bangladesh. Most studies of the predictors of reproductive health service utilization focus on women’s reports; however, men are often involved in these decisions as well. Recently,...
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This study analyzes the relationship between depressive symptoms and the utilization of medical services for elderly people in Taiwan.
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