Catastrophic total costs in tuberculosis-affected households and their determinants since Indonesia's implementation of universal health coverage.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As well as imposing an economic burden on affected households, the high costs related to tuberculosis (TB) can create access and adherence barriers. This highlights the particular urgency of achieving one of the End TB Strategy's targets: that no TB-affected households have to face catastrophic costs by 2020. In Indonesia, as elsewhere, there is also an emerging need to provide social protection by implementing universal health coverage (UHC). We therefore assessed the incidence of catastrophic total costs due to TB, and their determinants since the implementation of UHC.

Methods

We interviewed adult TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) patients in urban, suburban and rural areas of Indonesia who had been treated for at least one month or had finished treatment

SUBMITTER: Fuady A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5765643 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature