Willingness to pay for zinc treatment of childhood diarrhoea in a rural population of Bangladesh

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 230-236

  Akhter, Shamima ^a   Larson, Charles P ^a,b  

^a ICDDRB Division of Health Systems and Infectious Diseases   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

actual user; Bangladesh; Diarrhoea; willingness to pay; zinc

Indexed keywords

ZINC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; CAREGIVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; ECONOMICS; FEE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BANGLADESH; CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 77954718075     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czp058     Document Type: Article

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