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The role of private providers in treating child diarrhoea in Latin America

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  • Hugh R. Waters
  • Laurel E. Hatt
  • Robert E. Black

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Diarrhoeal disease, a leading cause of child mortality, disproportionately affects children in low‐income countries – where private and non‐governmental providers are often an important source of health care. We use 10 Living Standards Measurement Surveys from Latin America to model the choice of care for child diarrhoea in the private sector compared to the public sector. A total of 36.8% of children in the combined data set saw a private provider rather than a public one when taken for treatment. Each additional quintile of household economic status is associated with an increase of 6.5 percentage points in the probability that a child with diarrhoea is taken to a private provider (p

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  • Hugh R. Waters & Laurel E. Hatt & Robert E. Black, 2008. "The role of private providers in treating child diarrhoea in Latin America," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(1), pages 21-29, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:17:y:2008:i:1:p:21-29
    DOI: 10.1002/hec.1239
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