Barriers to healthcare access and healthcare seeking for childhood illnesses among childbearing women in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel modelling of Demographic and Health Surveys

• Bright Opoku Ahinkorah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Eugene Budu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: budueugene@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-9225

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• Abdul-Aziz Seidu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Services, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-9054

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• Ebenezer Agbaglo,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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• Collins Adu,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Promotion, and Disability Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Edward Kwabena Ameyaw,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6617-237X

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• Irene Gyamfuah Ampomah,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Services, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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• Anita Gracious Archer,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

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• Kwaku Kissah-Korsah,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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• Sanni Yaya

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-6043

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