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Coping with the cost burdens of illness: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in longitudinal, household research

Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, jane.goudge{at}nhls.ac.za

Tebogo Gumede

Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Lucy Gilson

Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Health Economics and Financing Programme, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Steve Russell

School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK

Stephen M. Tollman

MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Anne Mills

Health Economics and Financing Programme, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Over the last 10—15 years, poor African households have had to cope with the burden of increased levels of chronic illness such as HIV/AIDS. How do these households cope with the cost burdens of ill health and healthcare, and has this burden further impoverished them? What policy responses might better support these households? This is a report from the field of the South African Costs and Coping study (SACOCO) — a longitudinal investigation of household experiences in the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance site.

Key Words: Chronic illness • cost burden • health policy • longitudinal household research

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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 35, No. 69 suppl, 181-185 (2007)
DOI: 10.1080/14034950701355551


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