High Poverty and Hardship Financing Among Patients with Noncommunicable Diseases in Rural Haiti

Gene F. Kwan; Lily D. Yan; Benito Isaac; Kayleigh Bhangdia; Waking Jean-Baptiste; Densa Belony; Anirudh Gururaj; Martineau Louiné; Serge Vertilus; Dufens Pierre-Louis; Darius L. Fenelon; Lisa R. Hirschhorn; Emelia Benjamin; Gene Bukhman

doi:10.5334/gh.388

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Poverty and hardship financing are highly prevalent among NCD patients in rural Haiti.Patients attending clinic are less poor than expected from the community.People travelling farther to clinic are less poor.Socioeconomic data should be collected to monitor healthcare access equity.

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