Assessing the economic burden of illness for tuberculosis patients in Benin: determinants and consequences of catastrophic health expenditures and inequities

Samia Laokri, Michèle Dramaix Wilmet, Ferdinand Kassa, Séverin Anagonou and Bruno Dujardin

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Abstract: To inform policy-making, we measured the risk, causes and consequences of catastrophic expenditures for tuberculosis and investigated potential inequities.

Keywords: Adult; Aged; Benin; Cost of Illness; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data Collection; Family Characteristics; Female; Financing, Personal; Health Expenditures; Humans; Income; Male; Middle Aged; Odds Ratio; Socioeconomic Factors; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- economics; Young Adult (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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Published in: TM & IH. Tropical medicine and international health (2014)

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