Title: Strategies for coping with the costs of inpatient care : a mixed methods study of urban and rural poor in Vadodara district, Gujarat, India

Authors: Ranson, Michael Kent and Jayaswal, Rupal and Mills, Anne J.

Place: Oxford [etc.]

Publisher: Oxford university press [etc.]

Year: 2011

Journal: Health policy and planning

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: health care delivery, health economics, health policy, india

Abstract: This study aims to explore and compare mechanisms employed by the urban and rural poor for coping with inpatient expenditures, in order to help identify formal mechanisms and policies to provide improved social protection for health care.

URL: http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/06/07/heapol.czr044.full.pdf+html

Document type: Portal