Hardship financing of healthcare among rural poor in Orissa, India

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This study examines health-related "hardship financing" in order to get better insights on how poor households finance their out-of-pocket healthcare costs. We define hardship financing as having to borrow money with intere...

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Main Authors: Binnendijk Erika, Koren Ruth, Dror David M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-01-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/23