Parental costs for in-patient neonatal services for perinatal asphyxia and low birth weight in Ghana.

ABSTRACT: The major causes of newborn deaths in sub-Saharan Africa are well-known and countries are gradually implementing evidence-based interventions and strategies to reduce these deaths. Facility-based care provides the best outcome for sick and or small babies; however, little is known about the cost and burden of hospital-based neonatal services on parents in West Africa, the sub-region with the highest global neonatal death burden. To estimate the actual costs borne by parents of newborns hospitalised with birth-associated brain injury (perinatal asphyxia) and preterm/low birth weight, this study examined economic costs using micro-costing bottom-up approach in two referral hospitals operating under the nationwide social health insurance scheme in an urban setting in Ghana. We prospectively a

SUBMITTER: Enweronu-Laryea CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6185862 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature