Editorial: Iatrogenic poverty

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 581-584

  Meessen, Bruno ^a   Zhenzhong, Zhang ^b,d   Van Damme, Wim ^a   Devadasan, Narayanan ^a   Criel, Bart ^a   Bloom, Gerald ^c,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Institute of Hygienic Economics   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asia; Catastrophic health care expenditure; Health insurance; Iatrogenesis; Poverty; Social assistance; Transition

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INSURANCE; POVERTY;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFESTYLE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; POVERTY; HEALTH INSURANCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; POVERTY;

EID: 0037560263     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01081.x     Document Type: Editorial

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