Maternal and child healthcare-seeking among victims of violence in armed conflict: a quasi-experimental study in Northeast Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Armed conflict severely impacts health, with indirect deaths often exceeding direct casualties two to four times, disproportionately affecting women and children. Although the magnitude of these effects is well-documented, the mechanisms driving them remain insufficiently understood. This study shifts the focus from supply-side factors, such as the destruction of infrastructure, to demand-side processes, particularly healthcare-seeking behaviour and from broader conflict exposure to individual-level violent victimisation.

Methods

Data come from a representative survey (n=3006) of caregivers of young children in northeastern Nigeria, a region heavily affected by armed insurgency. Unlike previous studies, our survey included dedicated measures of victimisation, he

SUBMITTER: Schaub M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12718572 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature