The multidimensional nature of the financial and economic burden of a cancer diagnosis on patients and their families: Qualitative findings from a country with a mixed public-private healthcare system

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 107-117

  Timmons, Aileen ^a   Gooberman Hill, Rachael ^b   Sharp, Linda ^a  

^a Cork Airport Business Park ^*  (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Costs; Finances; Lung cancer; Prostate cancer; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IRELAND; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH BENEFIT PLANS, EMPLOYEE; HUMANS; INCOME; INSURANCE COVERAGE; IRELAND; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84874108866     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1498-4     Document Type: Article

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