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The Economic Burden of Meningitis to Households in Kassena-Nankana District of Northern Ghana

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the direct and indirect costs of meningitis to households in the Kassena-Nankana District of Ghana. METHODS: A Cost of illness (COI) survey was conducted between 2010 and 2011. The COI was computed from a retrospective review of 80 meningitis cases answers to questions about d...

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Autores principales:	Akweongo, Patricia, Dalaba, Maxwell A., Hayden, Mary H., Awine, Timothy, Nyaaba, Gertrude N., Anaseba, Dominic, Hodgson, Abraham, Forgor, Abdulai A., Pandya, Rajul
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2013
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836898/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24278203 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079880

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