Cost of illness for severe and non-severe diarrhea borne by households in a low-income urban community of Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study.

• Main Authors: Rebeca Sultana (Author), Stephen P Luby (Author), Emily S Gurley (Author), Nadia Ali Rimi (Author), Sayeda Tasnuva Swarna (Author), Jahangir A M Khan (Author), Nazmun Nahar (Author), Probir Kumar Ghosh (Author), Sushil Ranjan Howlader (Author), Humayun Kabir (Author), Shifat Khan (Author), Peter Kjær Mackie Jensen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-06-01T00:00:00Z.
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The illness cost borne by households, known as out-of-pocket expenditure, was 74% of the total health expenditure in Bangladesh in 2017. Calculating economic burden of diarrhea of low-income urban community is important to identify potential cost savings strategies and prioritize policy decision to...