Utilization of health care services for childhood morbidity and associated factors in India: a national cross-sectional household survey.

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Published in PLoS One on December 19, 2012

Authors

Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy1, T N Sathyanarayana, H N Harsha Kumar

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long, Malaysia.

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