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Household catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment due to rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization in Malaysia

Loganathan T 1 , Lee WS 2 , Lee KF 3 , Jit M 4 , Ng CW 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; University Malaya Paediatric and Child Health Research Group, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 3 Paediatric Department, Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
  • 4 Modeling and Economics Unit, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
PLoS One, 2015;10(5):e0125878.
PMID: 25941805 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0125878

Abstract

While healthcare costs for rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization may be burdensome on households in Malaysia, exploration on the distribution and catastrophic impact of these expenses on households are lacking.

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