Malaria care seeking behavior of individuals in Ghana under the NHIS: Are we back to the use of informal care? Global health

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fenny, Ama Pokuaa ^a   Asante, Felix A ^a   Enemark, Ulrika ^b   Hansen, Kristian S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Care seeking; Health insurance; Household survey; Malaria; Multinomial logit

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICALLY UNINSURED; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927653235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1696-3     Document Type: Article

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