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Economic costs of fever to households in the middle belt of Ghana

BACKGROUND: Malaria is one of the main health problems in the sub-Saharan Africa accounting for approximately 198 million morbidity and close to 600,000 mortality cases. Households incur out-of-pocket expenditure for treatment and lose income as a result of not being able to work or care for family...

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Autores principales:	Tawiah, Theresa, Asante, Kwaku Poku, Dwommoh, Rebecca Akua, Kwarteng, Anthony, Gyaase, Stephaney, Mahama, Emmanuel, Abokyi, Livesy, Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Hansen, Kristian, Akweongo, Patricia, Owusu-Agyei, Seth
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2016
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4744404/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26851936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12936-016-1116-x

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