"It's at a time in your life when you are most vulnerable": A qualitative exploration of the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis and implications for financial protection in health

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Timmons, Aileen ^a   Gooberman Hill, Rachael ^b   Sharp, Linda ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DEFICIT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRELAND; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84892903472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077549     Document Type: Article

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