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Investigating determinants of out-of-pocket spending and strategies for coping with payments for healthcare in southeast Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) is the major payment strategy for healthcare in Nigeria. Hence, the paper assessed the determinants socio-economic status (SES) of OOPS and strategies for coping with payments for healthcare in urban, semi-urban and rural areas of southeast Nigeria. This pap...

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Autores principales:	Onwujekwe, Obinna E, Uzochukwu, Benjamin SC, Obikeze, Eric N, Okoronkwo, Ijeoma, Ochonma, Ogbonnia G, Onoka, Chima A, Madubuko, Grace, Okoli, Chijioke
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2010
Materias:	Research article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20233454 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-67

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