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Catastrophic health care spending and impoverishment in Kenya

BACKGROUND: Many health systems in Africa are funded primarily through out-of-pocket payments. Out-of-pocket payments prevent people from seeking care, can result to catastrophic health spending and lead to impoverishment. This paper estimates the burden of out-of-pocket payments in Kenya; the incid...

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Autores principales: Chuma, Jane, Maina, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3561146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23170770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-413