The primary healthcare facilities (ESSP) constitute the basic element in the Moroccan national healthcare system and the primary access site to healthcare in a well-structured supply network. The primary healthcare facilities provide basic healthcare, both preventive (family planning, child immunization, prenatal consultations and childbirth assistance, etc.) and curative. Its PHC services have an impact on fertility, in particular through family planning and information, education and communication (IEC) services for women. In addition, through maternal and child health programs, the ESSPs can affect women's health and survival by making prenatal pregnancy monitoring and delivery in a health care setting accessible and available. After birth, these primary healthcare facilities provide child immunizations and curative care services. All of these services, in addition to many others, contribute to saving the lives of children who are naturally exposed to life-threatening infections (measles, whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria, pneumonia, etc.) and to improving their physical well-being. This paper examines the relationship between the level of physical well-being of children in Morocco and the supply of basic healthcare facilities. A multilevel analysis will be used to verify these links on the basis of the micro-data derived from the Demographic Health Survey (ENPS-2011).
Graduate of the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics in 1993 (engineering degree in statistics and demography). Public employee at the Ministry of Health of Morocco and in charge of all aspects of survey and data analysis (DHS, population and family health, etc.) from 1993 to 2015 (May). Teacher at the Higher Institute of Nursing Professions and Health Techniques, Rabat, Morocco since 2015. PhD student at the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics, GES3D Laboratory, Rabat, Morocco since 2017.
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