Illness Burden, Care Seeking, and Treatment Cost Among Less than 2-year-olds in Rural Haryana

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1347-1352

  Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Gupta, Madhu ^a   Prinja, Shankar ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Care seeking; Children; Cost; Illness burden; Incidence; Morbidity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONSULTATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DIARRHEA; FEVER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH SURVEY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MOTHER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84916206971     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12098-014-1495-3     Document Type: Article

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