The DHS Program

John Donnelly
Guest Blog
Global Health Magazine (USA)

...The first was a discovery in a book of statistics.

Deep inside Mali's Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in 2006 was this finding: Mali residents were using health facilities, on average, just 0.3 times a year. It wasn't that people in Mali were extraordinarily healthy. Instead, officials believed, many weren't going because they couldn't afford a visit with a doctor or even a community health worker...

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John Donnelly
Guest Blog
Global Health Magazine (USA)

...The first was a discovery in a book of statistics.

Deep inside Mali's Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in 2006 was this finding: Mali residents were using health facilities, on average, just 0.3 times a year. It wasn't that people in Mali were extraordinarily healthy. Instead, officials believed, many weren't going because they couldn't afford a visit with a doctor or even a community health worker...