Does the provision of community health services offset the effects of poverty and low maternal educational attainment on childhood mortality? An analysis of the equity effect of the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana
The Government of Ghana has instituted a National Poverty Reduction Program with an initiative known as the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) as its core health development strategy. CHPS was derived from a plausibility trial of the Navrongo Health Research Centre testing four cont...
Main Authors: | Ayaga A. Bawah, James F. Phillips, Patrick O. Asuming, Elizabeth F. Jackson, Paul Walega, Edmund W. Kanmiki, Mallory C. Sheff, Abraham Oduro |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-04-01
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Series: | SSM: Population Health |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827318302295 |
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