Erratum: Socio-economic differentials in impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket health expenditure in China and India: Evidence from WHO SAGE (PLoS ONE (2015) 10:8 (e0135051) (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135051));Socio-economic differentials in impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket health expenditure in China and India: Evidence from WHO SAGE

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Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Kumar, Kaushalendra ^a   Singh, Ashish ^b   Kumar, Santosh ^c   Ram, Faujdar ^a   Singh, Abhishek ^a   Ram, Usha ^a   Negin, Joel ^d   Kowal, Paul R ^e   Nugent, Rachel A ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^c SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; OUT OF POCKET HEALTH EXPENDITURE; OUTPATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CHINA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84942895767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138499     Document Type: Erratum

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