Noncommunicable disease-attributable medical expenditures, household financial stress and impoverishment in Bangladesh

• Główni autorzy: Biplab Kumar Datta (Autor), Muhammad Jami Husain (Autor), Muhammad Mudabbir Husain (Autor), Deliana Kostova (Autor)
• Format: Książka
• Wydane: Elsevier, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Hasła przedmiotowe: article
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Background: Treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low-income countries can entail large out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures, which can increase the likelihood of household impoverishment and perpetuate the poverty cycle. This paper studies the implications of NCDs on household medical...