Patients direct costs to undergo TB diagnosis

Infectious Diseases of Poverty

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  de Cuevas, Rachel M Anderson ^a   Lawson, Lovett ^b,c   Al Sonboli, Najla ^d   Al Aghbari, Nasher ^e   Arbide, Isabel ^f   Sherchand, Jeevan B ^g   Nnamdi, Emenyonu E ^b   Aseffa, Abraham ^h   Yassin, Mohammed A ^a,i   Abdurrahman, Saddiq T ^j   Obasanya, Joshua ^j   Olanrewaju, Oladimeji ^b   Datiko, Daniel ^k   Theobald, Sally J ^a   Ramsay, Andrew ^l   Squire, S Bertel ^a   Cuevas, Luis E ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ZANKLI MEDICAL CENTRE   (Nigeria)

^c BINGHAM UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

^d SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^e National Tuberculosis Institute   (Yemen)

^f Bushullo Major Health Centre   (Ethiopia)

^g TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

^h ARMAUER HANSEN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

ⁱ TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA   (Switzerland)

^j REACH Ethiopia ^*  (Nigeria)

^k REACH Ethiopia   (Ethiopia)

^l WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Access to healthcare; Costs; Ethiopia; Nepal; Nigeria; Tuberculosis; Yemen

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION; TUBERCULOSIS; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; YEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; NIGERIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; TUBERCULOSIS; YEMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84992295820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20499957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0117-x     Document Type: Article

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