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

ABSTRACT:

Background

Poverty is a major barrier to healthcare access in low-income countries. The degree of equitable access for noncommunicable disease (NCD) patients is not known in rural Haiti.

Objectives

We evaluated the poverty distribution among patients receiving care in an NCD clinic in rural Haiti compared with the community and assessed associations of poverty with sex and distance from the health facility.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional study of patients with NCDs attending a public-sector health center in rural Haiti 2013-2016, and compared poverty among patients with poverty among a weighted community sample from the Haiti 2012 Demographic and Health Survey. We adapted the multidimensional poverty index: people deprived ≥44% of indicators are among the poor

SUBMITTER: Kwan GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7218772 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature