Distance to care, care seeking and child mortality in rural Burkina Faso: findings from a population-based cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although distance has been identified as an important barrier to care, evidence for an effect of distance to care on child mortality is inconsistent. We investigated the association of distance to care with self-reported care seeking behaviours, neonatal and post-neonatal under-five child mortality in rural areas of Burkina Faso.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional survey in 14 rural areas from November 2014 to March 2015. About 100 000 women were interviewed on their pregnancy history and about 5000 mothers were interviewed on their care seeking behaviours. Euclidean distances to the closest facility were calculated. Mixed-effects logistic and Poisson regressions were used respectively to compute odds ratios for care seeking behaviours and rate ratios for child

SUBMITTER: Sarrassat S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6378618 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature