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Distance and the utilization of health facilities in rural Nigeria.
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The impact of distance on the utilization of health care facilities in the Hadejia area of Kano State, Nigeria was examined and per capita utilization was found to decline exponentially with distance.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 358 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Distance decay & Health facility.read more
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Too far to walk : maternal mortality in context
Sereen Thaddeus,Deborah Maine +1 more
TL;DR: Findings from a broad body of research on the factors that delay the decision to seek care are presented and examples of efforts to reduce maternal deaths are presented, with an emphasis on strategies to mobilize and adapt existing resources.
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Determinants of the use of maternal health services in rural Bangladesh.
TL;DR: Analysis of data from a survey of maternal morbidity in Bangladesh indicates that women having had a life-threatening condition are little over two times more likely to seek care from a doctor or nurse to treat their maternal morbidities.
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Use of location-allocation models in health service development planning in developing nations
Shams Rahman,David K. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: The purpose of this review is to examine the suitability of location-allocation models for designing health care systems and their relevance to overall development problems in such countries.
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Modelling and understanding primary health care accessibility and utilization in rural South Africa: An exploration using a geographical information system
TL;DR: A cost analysis within a geographical information system is used to estimate mean travel time (at any given location) to clinic and to derive the clinic catchments and constitutes a framework for modelling physical access to clinics in many developing country settings.
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Dead mothers and injured wives: the social context of maternal morbidity and mortality among the Hausa of northern Nigeria
TL;DR: The convergence of all of these factors has resulted in one of the worst records of female reproductive health existing anywhere in the world.
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African Traditional Thought and Western Science
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that important continuities link the religious thinking of traditional Africa and the theoretical thinking of the modern West, and they show how this view helps us to make sense of many otherwise puzzling features of traditional religious thinking.
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Aspects of Illness
TL;DR: The failure of positivism illness as social action accounts of illness illness and every-day life illness and sufferers the way forward is examined.
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