Health seeking behaviour and the related household out-of-pocket expenditure for chronic non-communicable diseases in rural Malawi

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 242-252

  Wang, Qun ^a   Brenner, Stephan ^a   Leppert, Gerald ^a   Banda, Thomas Hastings ^b   Kalmus, Olivier ^a   De Allegri, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Research for Equity and Community Health Trust   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Chronic illness; Costs; Health care seeking behaviour; Non communicable disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALAWI; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALAWI; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939150943     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czu004     Document Type: Article

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