Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Effects of mutual health organizations on use of priority health-care services in urban and rural Mali: a case–control study

Lynne Miller Franco, François Pathé Diop, Clara R Burgert, Allison Gamble Kelley, Marty Makinen, Cheick Hamed Tidiane Simpara

Volume 86, Number 11, November 2008, 830-838

Table 2. Sample sizes for all groups and by health-service target population in areas served by MHOs and a control area without MHOs, Mali, 2003–2004

Health service target	Bla			Sikasso^a		Overall			Total
Health service target	M	NM	C	M	NM	M	NM	C	Total
Households	268	341	676	549	446	817	787	676	2 280
Individuals in households	2 113	2 157	4 473	3 663	2 604	5 786	4 761	4 473	15 020
Fever cases	251	268	611	299	272	550	540	611	1 701
Women 15–49 years old	405	393	819	125	163	530	556	819	1 905
Women who delivered in previous 12 months or pregnant	144	177	366	114	151	258	328	366	952
Women who delivered in previous 12 months	102	118	246	76	101	178	219	246	643
Children < 5 years old	294	270	486	135	215	429	485	486	1 400^b

C, households in control area (no MHO access); MHO, mutual health organization; M, MHO member households; NM, MHO non-member households in areas with MHO access.^a The non-MHO access control group does not exist for Sikasso because the two MHOs cover the entire urban area.^b Data on the utilization of diarrhoea treatments, immunizations, vitamin A, and insecticide-treated bednets were available only on a subset of children younger than 5 years (i.e. those whose mothers were pregnant or delivered in the 12 months before the survey).