Title: Giving birth at a health-care facility in rural China : is it affordable for the poor?

Authors: Long, Qian

Place: [Geneva]

Publisher: World health organization (WHO)

Year: 2011

Journal: Bulletin of the World health organization

Volume: vol. 89, no. 2

PAGE: 144--152

Subject: Health and Poverty

Keywords: health care delivery, maternal health services, rural areas, poverty, china

Abstract: The objectives of this study were to investigate changes in the expenditure of giving birth in health-care facilities in rural China during 1998-2007, to examine the financial burden on households, particularly poor ones, and to identify factors associated with out-of-pocket expenditure.

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3040377/pdf/BLT.10.079434.pdf

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