Out-Of-Pocket cost of managing sick newborns in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria

ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-35

  Ekwochi, Uchenna ^a   Osuorah, D Chidiebere ^c   Ndu, Ikenna K ^a   Ezenwosu, Osita U ^b   Amadi, Ogechukwu F ^a   Nwokoye, Ikenna C ^a   Odetunde, O Israel ^b  

^a Enugu State University Teaching Hospital   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA   (Nigeria)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

Author keywords

Enugu State; Health expenditure; Neonatal illness; Out of pocket

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INCOME; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE INCOME GROUP; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN JAUNDICE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NIGERIA; PERINATAL ASPHYXIA; SOCIAL STATUS; TRANSIENT TACHYPNEA OF THE NEWBORN; UPPER INCOME GROUP;

EID: 84892607631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11786981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CEOR.S54674     Document Type: Article

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