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

Author(s): Ranson, Michael Kent; Jayaswal, Rupal; Mills, Anne J.

Source(s): , Health policy and planning 13 p., ill., graphs, tabs Health policy and planning

Published: 2011 Oxford university press [etc.], Oxford [etc.] (English

ISBN/ISSN: /1460-2237

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

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