"It is me who endures but my family that suffers": social isolation as a consequence of the household cost burden of Buruli ulcer free of charge hospital treatment.
Despite free of charge biomedical treatment, the cost burden of Buruli ulcer disease (Bu) hospitalisation in Central Cameroon accounts for 25% of households' yearly earnings, surpassing the threshold of 10%, which is generally considered catastrophic for the household economy, and calling into...
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Main Authors: | Koen Peeters Grietens (Author), Alphonse Um Boock (Author), Hans Peeters (Author), Susanna Hausmann-Muela (Author), Elizabeth Toomer (Author), Joan Muela Ribera (Author) |
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2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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