Cost of acute respiratory illness episode and its determinants among community-dwelling older adults: a four-site cohort study from India

• Main Authors: Prabu Rajkumar (Author), Lalit Dar (Author), Ritvik Amarchand (Author), Aslesh Ottapura Prabhakaran (Author), Suman Kanungo (Author), Sumit Dutt Bhardwaj (Author), Avinash Choudekar (Author), Varsha Potdar (Author), Alok Kumar Chakrabarti (Author), Byomkesh Manna (Author), Kathryn E Lafond (Author), Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner (Author), Siddhartha Saha (Author), Kusum Shekhawat (Author), Ismael R Ortega-Sanchez (Author), Giridara Gopal (Author), Girish Kumar Chethrapilly Purushothaman (Author), Radhika Gharpure (Author), Uttaran Bhattacharjee (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction Advocacy for the provision of public health resources, including vaccine for the prevention of acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs) among older adults in India, needs evidence on costs and benefits. Using a cohort of community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older in India, we estimated...