Impact of an innovative financing and payment model on tuberculosis patients' financial burden: is tuberculosis care more affordable for the poor?

• Main Authors: Wei-Xi Jiang (Author), Qian Long (Author), Henry Lucas (Author), Di Dong (Author), Jia-Ying Chen (Author), Li Xiang (Author), Qiang Li (Author), Fei Huang (Author), Hong Wang (Author), Chris Elbers (Author), Frank Cobelens (Author), Sheng-Lan Tang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background In response to the high financial burden of health services facing tuberculosis (TB) patients in China, the China-Gates TB project, Phase II, has implemented a new financing and payment model as an important component of the overall project in three cities in eastern, central and...