High Poverty and Hardship Financing Among Patients with Noncommunicable Diseases in Rural Haiti

• Main Authors: Gene F. Kwan (Author), Lily D. Yan (Author), Benito D. Isaac (Author), Kayleigh Bhangdia (Author), Waking Jean-Baptiste (Author), Densa Belony (Author), Anirudh Gururaj (Author), Louine Martineau (Author), Serge Vertilus (Author), Dufens Pierre-Louis (Author), Darius L. Fenelon (Author), Lisa R. Hirschhorn (Author), Emelia J. Benjamin (Author), Gene Bukhman (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2020-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Poverty is a major barrier to healthcare access in low-income countries. The degree of equitable access for noncommunicable disease (NCD) patients is not known in rural Haiti. Objectives: We evaluated the poverty distribution among patients receiving care in an NCD clinic in rural Haiti...