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Assessing the relationship between out-of-pocket spending on blood pressure and diabetes medication and household catastrophic health expenditure: evidence from Pakistan

BACKGROUND: Treatment of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) is costly and could expose households to financial hardship and vulnerability. This paper examines the association between medication costs of two major NCDs – hypertension (blood pressure) and diabe...

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Autores principales: Datta, Biplab Kumar, Husain, Muhammad Jami, Asma, Samira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6334430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30646905
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-018-0906-x