Informal payments for healthcare: Differences in expenditures from consumers and providers perspectives for treatment of malaria in Nigeria

Health Policy

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 72-79

  Onwujekwe, Obinna ^a   Dike, Nkem ^b   Uzochukwu, Benjamin ^a   Ezeoke, Ogochukwu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expenditures; Informal payments; Malaria treatment; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MALE; NIGERIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77952952657     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.12.014     Document Type: Article

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