Care-seeking behavior and out-of-pocket expenditure for sick newborns among urban poor in Lucknow, northern India: A prospective follow-up study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Srivastava, Neeraj M ^a   Awasthi, Shally ^a   Agarwal, Girdhar G ^b  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; SEPTICEMIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INDIA; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; URBAN POPULATION;

FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY AREAS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 65149098588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-61     Document Type: Article

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