Health service use and household expenditure during terminal illness due to AIDS in rural Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 873-877

  Ngalula, Juliana ^a,b   Urassa, Mark ^a,c   Mwaluko, Gabriel ^a   Isingo, Raphael ^a,c   Ties Boerma, J ^d  

^a TANESA Project   (Tanzania)

^b Bugando Medical Center   (Tanzania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult mortality; Africa; AIDS; Health service use; Tanzania; Terminal illness

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE; RURAL POPULATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RURAL AREA; TANZANIA; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TERMINALLY ILL;

TANZANIA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0036399448     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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