Self-reported illness and household strategies for coping with health-care payments in Bangladesh

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 449-458

  Rahman, Md Mizanur ^a   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

COPING STRATEGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BANGLADESH; CHILD; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OUTPATIENT CARE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TROPICAL DISEASE; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SELF REPORT; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

BANGLADESH; RAJSHAHI;

EID: 84878443857     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.12.115428     Document Type: Article

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