Diabetes mellitus medication use and catastrophic healthcare expenditure among adults aged 50+ years in China and India: results from the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-15

  Gwatidzo, Shingai Douglas ^a   Stewart Williams, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Aging; Developing countries; Financing; Impoverishment; Low and middle income countries; Medicines; NCDs; Non communicable diseases; OOP; Out of pocket; UCC; Universal healthcare coverage

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

AGE; AGED; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHINA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85009219511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12877-016-0408-x     Document Type: Article

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