What are the trends in seeking health care for fever in children under-five in Sierra Leone? evidence from four population-based studies before and after the free health care initiative

Joel Dofinissery Bognini; Sekou Samadoulougou; Mady Ouedraogo; Francis Smart; David Tiga Kankoye; Osman Sankoh; Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0263364

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What are the trends in seeking health care for fever in children under-five in Sierra Leone? evidence from four population-based studies before and after the free health care initiative

Joel Dofinissery Bognini ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Joel Dofinissery Bognini, Sekou Samadoulougou

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

Affiliation Unité de Recherche Clinique de Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8465-2895

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Sekou Samadoulougou ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Joel Dofinissery Bognini, Sekou Samadoulougou

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ouindpanga-sekou.samadoulougou.1@ulaval.ca (SS); fati.kirakoya@ulb.be (FK-S)

Affiliations Centre for Research on Planning and Development (CRAD), Laval University, Quebec, Canada, Evaluation Platform on Obesity Prevention, Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec, Canada
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Mady Ouedraogo,

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie [INSD], Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Francis Smart,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone
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David Tiga Kankoye,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre National de Recherche et de Formation sur le Paludisme (CNRFP), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Osman Sankoh,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Statistics Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ouindpanga-sekou.samadoulougou.1@ulaval.ca (SS); fati.kirakoya@ulb.be (FK-S)

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Epidémiologie, Biostatistiques et Recherche Clinique, École de Santé Publique, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelles, Belgique
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What are the trends in seeking health care for fever in children under-five in Sierra Leone? evidence from four population-based studies before and after the free health care initiative

Joel Dofinissery Bognini,
Sekou Samadoulougou,
Mady Ouedraogo,
Francis Smart,
David Tiga Kankoye,
Osman Sankoh,
Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou

Published: February 2, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263364

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