The Economic Burden of Cancers on Indian Households

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Mahal, Ajay ^a   Karan, Anup ^b,c   Fan, Victoria Y ^d   Engelgau, Michael ^e  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTER FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORBIDITY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROPENSITY SCORE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS;

COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INDIA; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84881532540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071853     Document Type: Article

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