Health beliefs and (timely) use of facility-based care for under-five children: lessons from the qualitative component of Nigeria’s 2019 VASA

Health beliefs and (timely) use of facility-based care for under-five children: lessons from the qualitative component of Nigeria’s 2019 VASA

Background: Nigeria’s under-five health outcomes have improved over the years, but the mortality rates remain unacceptably high. The qualitative component of Nigeria’s 2019 verbal and social autopsy (VASA) showed that caregivers’ health beliefs about causes of illnesses and efficacious treatment opt...

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Main Authors: Abba, B.I (Author), Franca-Koh, A. (Author), King, R. (Author), Kunnuji, M. (Author), Odejimi, A. (Author), Oguche, S. (Author), Ojogun, T.O (Author), Quinley, J. (Author), Wammanda, R.D (Author), Weiss, W. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2022
Subjects:
article
autopsy
biomedicine
caregiver
child
clinical article
controlled study
demography
faith healing
female
genetic transcription
health belief
health care facility
health survey
human
interview
male
Nigeria
prevalence
traditional medicine
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