The economic burden of hypertension in rural south-west China

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1544-1551

  Le, Cai ^a   Zhankun, Shu ^b   Jun, Dong ^a   Keying, Zhao ^a  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Luo Ping County Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

China; Economic burden; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPERTENSION; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RURAL AREA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHINA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMIC BURDEN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL RUNNING COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SELF CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHINA; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 84869881014     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03087.x     Document Type: Article

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