Health-Related Financial Catastrophe, Inequality and Chronic Illness in Bangladesh

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rahman, Md Mizanur ^a,b   Gilmour, Stuart ^a   Saito, Eiko ^a   Sultana, Papia ^b   Shibuya, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJSHAHI   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BUDGET; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SELF MEDICATION; TRADITIONAL HEALER;

BANGLADESH; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84874512828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056873     Document Type: Article

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