Estimating average inpatient and outpatient costs and childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea treatment costs in an urban health centre in Zambia

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chola, Lumbwe ^a,b   Robberstad, Bjarne ^b  

^a Central Statistical Office   (Zambia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CONSULTATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DENTAL CARE; DIARRHEA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; ZAMBIA;

EID: 71149090853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-7-16     Document Type: Article

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