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Out-of-pocket payments and catastrophic household expenditure to access essential surgery in Malawi - A cross-sectional patient survey

BACKGROUND: Having to pay out-of-pocket for health care can be prohibitive and even cause financial catastrophe for patients, especially those with low and irregular incomes. Health services at Government-owned hospitals in Malawi are provided free of charge but patients do incur costs when they acc...

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Autores principales: Bijlmakers, Leon, Wientjes, Maike, Mwapasa, Gerald, Cornelissen, Dennis, Borgstein, Eric, Broekhuizen, Henk, Brugha, Ruairi, Gajewski, Jakub
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2019.06.003