Hospital-provision of essential primary care in 56 countries: determinants and quality

The objective of this research is to estimate the use of hospitals for four essential primary care services offered in health centres in low- and middle-income countries and to explore differences in quality between hospitals and health centres. On average across 56 countries, public hospitals were used as the sole source of care by 16.9% of 126,012 women who obtained contraceptives, 23.1% of 418,236 women who received routine antenatal care, 19.9% of 47,677 children with diarrhoea and 18.5% of 82,082 children with fever or cough.

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Arsenault, C., M. K. Kim, A. Aryal, A. Faye, J. P. Joseph, M. Kassa, T. T. Degfie, T. Yahya, and M. E. Kruk (2020) Hospital-provision of essential primary care in 56 countries: determinants and quality. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2020;98:735–746D