Costs of screening children for hearing disorders and delivery of hearing aids in China

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Baltussen, Rob ^a   Li, Ju ^b   Wu, Li Dong ^c   Ge, Xiao Hui ^b   Teng, Bai Yu ^b   Sun, Xi Bin ^b   Han, Rui ^b   Wang, Xiao Li ^b   McPherson, Bradley ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b China Disabled Persons' Federation Information Center   (China)

^c GuangXi Zhuangzu Autonomous Region Rehabilitation   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; CHILD; CHINA; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEARING AID; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MALE; MASS SCREENING; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE;

CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEARING AIDS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 65549092293     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-9-64     Document Type: Article

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