Assessing access barriers to tuberculosis care with the tool to Estimate Patients' Costs: Pilot results from two districts in Kenya

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mauch, Verena ^a   Woods, Naomi ^b   Kirubi, Beatrice ^c   Kipruto, Hillary ^d,e   Sitienei, Joseph ^d   Klinkenberg, Eveline ^a,f  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b Gertrude's Children's Hospital ^*

^c Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCOME; KENYA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INCOME; KENYA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651426993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-43     Document Type: Article

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