Household health care-seeking costs: Experiences from a randomized, controlled trial of community-based malaria and pneumonia treatment among under-fives in eastern Uganda

Malaria Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Matovu, Fred ^a,b   Nanyiti, Aisha ^a,c   Rutebemberwa, Elizeus ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b Policy Analysis and Development Research Institute   (Uganda)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health care seeking; Household cost; Malaria; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CENTER; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOME CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; RURAL AREA; TRAVEL; UGANDA; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; UGANDA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902550940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-13-222     Document Type: Article

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