Cost of illness for cholera in a high risk urban area in Bangladesh: An analysis from household perspective

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sarker, Abdur R ^a   Islam, Ziaul ^a   Khan, Iqbal A ^a   Saha, Amit ^a   Chowdhury, Fahima ^a   Khan, Ashraful I ^a   Qadri, Firdausi ^a   Khan, Jahangir A M ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cholera; Cost of illness; Urban Bangladesh

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHOLERA; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; URBAN AREA; ADULT; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BANGLADESH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLERA; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84886735202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-518     Document Type: Article

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