Disease-specific impoverishment impact of out-of-pocket payments for health care: Evidence from rural Bangladesh

Applied Health Economics and Health Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 421-433

  Hamid, Syed Abdul ^a   Ahsan, Syed M ^b,c,d   Begum, Afroza ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d CESIFO   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CANCER PATIENT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SPECIFIC IMPOVERISHMENT IMPACT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OUT OF POCKET PAYMENT; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BANGLADESH; COST OF ILLNESS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84905100335     PISSN: 11755652     EISSN: 11791896     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40258-014-0100-2     Document Type: Article

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