A Novel Method for Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in a Low Income Country
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A Novel Method for Defining Health Facility Catchment Areas in a Low Income Country
Methods The catchment areas of six health-care facilities in Uganda were determined using the cumulative case ratio: the ratio of the observed to expected utilization of a facility for a particular condition by patients from small administrative areas. The cumulative case ratio for malaria-related visits to these facilities was determined using data from the Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project....
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عنوان ژورنال: Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1947-2579
DOI: 10.5210/ojphi.v7i1.5764