Moving to universal coverage? Trends in the burden of out-of-pocket payments for health care across social groups in India, 1999-2000 to 2011-12

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Karan, Anup ^a,b,c   Selvaraj, Sakthivel ^c   Mahal, Ajay ^d  

^a India   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; OUTPATIENT CARE; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREND STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; INSURANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

COST OF ILLNESS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIA; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; UNIVERSAL COVERAGE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84930657239     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105162     Document Type: Article

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