Out-of-pocket expenditure on chronic non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the case of rural Malawi.

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Published in PLoS One on January 13, 2015

Authors

Qun Wang1, Alex Z Fu2, Stephan Brenner1, Olivier Kalmus1, Hastings Thomas Banda3, Manuela De Allegri1

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
2: Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
3: Research for Equity and Community Health Trust (REACH Trust), Lilongwe, Malawi.

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