Beyond antimalarial stock-outs: Implications of health provider compliance on out-of-pocket expenditure during care-seeking for fever in South East Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mikkelsen Lopez, Inez ^a,b   Tediosi, Fabrizio ^a,b,c   Abdallah, Gumi ^d   Njozi, Mustafa ^d   Amuri, Baraka ^d   Khatib, Rashid ^d   Manzi, Fatuma ^d   De Savigny, Don ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Antimalarial; Health worker behaviour; Informal charges; Stock outs; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; COST; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG COST; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; FEVER; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TANZANIA;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG COSTS; ETHANOLAMINES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEVER; FINANCING, PERSONAL; FLUORENES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 84886144863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-444     Document Type: Article

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