Methodological Issues to Consider When Collecting Data to Estimate Poverty Impact in Economic Evaluations in Low-income and Middle-income Countries

Health Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 25, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-52

  Sweeney, Sedona ^a   Vassall, Anna ^a   Foster, Nicola ^c   Simms, Victoria ^a   Ilboudo, Patrick ^b   Kimaro, Godfather ^d   Mudzengi, Don ^e   Guinness, Lorna ^a  

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

^b CENTRE MURAZ   (Burkina Faso)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^e AURUM INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

catastrophic expenditures; data collection methods; economic evaluation; out of pocket payments; poverty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; POVERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; STUDY DESIGN; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; POVERTY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84957108565     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.3304     Document Type: Article

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