Caregiver Decision-Making: Household Response to Child Illness in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in Popul Res Policy Rev on July 04, 2016

Authors

Hayley Pierce1, Ashley Larsen Gibby2, Renata Forste3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Demography and Sociology, 2232 Piedmont Ave, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, hayleyp@berkeley.edu.
2: Department of Sociology, 512 Oswald Tower, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, 16801, agl132@psu.edu.
3: Department of Sociology, 2025 JFSB, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, Office phone: 801-422-3146, , renata_forste@byu.edu.

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