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Charting health system reconstruction in post-war Liberia: a comparison of rural vs. remote healthcare utilization

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, September 2016
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Title
Charting health system reconstruction in post-war Liberia: a comparison of rural vs. remote healthcare utilization
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BMC Health Services Research, September 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12913-016-1709-7
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Katherine Kentoffio, John D. Kraemer, Thomas Griffiths, Avi Kenny, Rajesh Panjabi, G. Andrew Sechler, Stephen Selinsky, Mark J. Siedner

Abstract

Despite a growing global emphasis on universal healthcare, access to basic primary care for remote populations in post-conflict countries remains a challenge. To better understand health sector recovery in post-conflict Liberia, this paper seeks to evaluate changes in utilization of health services among rural populations across a 5-year time span. We assessed trends in healthcare utilization among the national rural population using the Liberian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) from 2007 and 2013. We compared these results to results obtained from a two-staged cluster survey in 2012 in the district of Konobo, Liberia, to assess for differential health utilization in an isolated, remote region. Our primary outcomes of interest were maternal and child health service care seeking and utilization. Most child and maternal health indicators improved in the DHS rural sub-sample from 2007 to 2013. However, this progress was not reflected in the remote Konobo population. A lower proportion of women received 4+ antenatal care visits (AOR 0.28, P < 0.001) or any postnatal care (AOR 0.25, P <0.001) in Konobo as compared to the 2013 DHS. Similarly, a lower proportion of children received professional care for common childhood illnesses, including acute respiratory infection (9 % vs. 52 %, P < 0.001) or diarrhea (11 % vs. 46 %, P < 0.001). Our data suggest that, despite the demonstrable success of post-war rehabilitation in rural regions, particularly remote populations in Liberia remain at disproportionate risk for limited access to basic health services. As a renewed effort is placed on health systems reconstruction in the wake of the Ebola-epidemic, a specific focus on solutions to reach isolated populations will be necessary in order to ensure extension of coverage to remote regions such as Konobo.

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Unknown 227 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 56 25%
Researcher 35 15%
Student > Bachelor 17 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 7%
Other 36 16%
Unknown 53 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 56 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 46 20%
Social Sciences 23 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 3%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 63 28%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 September 2019.
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#6,981,149
of 22,888,307 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,420
of 7,655 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#108,696
of 334,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#108
of 231 outputs
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