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Utilisation of child health services in developing countries

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Evidence world-wide indicates that those who need health services the most, the urban and rural poor, use them the least. Because the health care system is not in contact with the mass of the people, technical interventions, such as immunisation, or major advances such as oral rehydration therapy for diarrhoea, are limited in their effectiveness.

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    R. E. Eeckels

  2. Lagos, Nigeria

    O. Ransome-Kuti

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Bamisaiye, A. (1985). Utilisation of child health services in developing countries. In: Eeckels, R.E., Ransome-Kuti, O., Kroonenberg, C.C. (eds) Child Health in the Tropics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5012-2_31

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