Open AccessCommunity-Based Health Financing and Child Stunting in Rural Rwanda
Author(s) -
Chunling Lu,
Iván MejíaGuevara,
Kenneth Hill,
Paul Farmer,
S. V. Subramanian,
Agnès Binagwaho
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2015.302913
Subject(s) - environmental health , poverty , medicine , odds , odds ratio , public health , community health , health care , malnutrition , logistic regression , economic growth , nursing , economics , pathology
We analyzed the likelihood of rural children (aged 6-24 months) being stunted according to whether they were enrolled in Mutuelles, a community-based health-financing program providing health insurance to rural populations and granting them access to health care, including nutrition services.