Household economic impact of an emerging disease in terms of catastrophic out-of-pocket health care expenditure and loss of productivity: Investigation of an outbreak of chikungunya in Orissa, India

Journal of Vector Borne Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-64

  Gopalan, Saji Saraswathy ^a   Das, Ashis ^a  

^a Asian Institute of Public Health   (India)

Author keywords

Chikungunya; Economic impact; Health care; India; Orissa

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; COST OF ILLNESS; DRUG COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POVERTY; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TOGAVIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65349140837     PISSN: 09729062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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