Out-of-pocket healthcare payments on chronic conditions impoverish urban poor in Bangalore, India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bhojani, Upendra ^a,b   Thriveni, Bs ^a   Devadasan, Roopa ^a   Munegowda, Cm ^a   Devadasan, Narayanan ^a   Kolsteren, Patrick ^b   Criel, Bart ^b  

^a Institute of Public Health   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chronic; Healthcare expenditure; Impoverishment; India; Out of pocket; Outpatient care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 84869012961     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-990     Document Type: Article

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