Step-by-step guideline for disease-specific costing studies in low- and middle-income countries: A mixed methodology

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hendriks, Marleen E ^a   Kundu, Piyali ^b   Boers, Alexander C ^a   Bolarinwa, Oladimeji A ^c   te Pas, Mark J ^a   Akande, Tanimola M ^c   Agbede, Kayode ^d   Gomez, Gabriella B ^a   Redekop, William K ^b   Schultsz, Constance ^a   Tan, Siok Swan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

^d Ogo Oluwa Hospital   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Cost of illness; Developing countries; Economic evaluation; Global health; Healthcare costs; Methodology; Micro costing; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASES; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ECONOMICS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTHCARE COSTS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COSTING; NIGERIA; STATISTICS; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; UNCERTAINTY;

COST OF ILLNESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTHCARE COSTS; METHODOLOGY; MICRO-COSTING; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; NIGERIA; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84904382599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23573     Document Type: Article

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