Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its inequality for households with hypertension: evidence from the rural areas of Shaanxi Province in China

Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its inequality for households with hypertension: evidence from the rural areas of Shaanxi Province in China

Abstract Background China has been undergoing tremendous demographic and epidemiological transitions during the past three decades and increasing burden from non-communicable diseases and an ageing population have presented great health-care challenges for the country. Numerous studies examine catas...

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Main Authors: Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Min Su, Meng Ma, Yongjian Xu, Jesse Heitner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
Subjects:
Catastrophic health care expenditure
Hypertension
Concentration index
Decomposition
Inequality
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12939-016-0506-6

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