Healthcare utilisation and expenditure patterns for cardio-metabolic diseases in South Asian cities: the CARRS Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate average annual expenditures per person, total economic burden and distress health financing associated with the treatment of five cardio-metabolic diseases (CMDs-hypertension, diabetes, heart disease (angina, myocardial infarction and heart failure), stroke and chronic kidney disease) in three metropolitan cities in South Asia.

Design

Cross-sectional surveys.

Setting

We analysed community-based baseline data from the Centre for cArdio-metabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS) Study collected in 2010-2011 representing Chennai and New Delhi (India), and Karachi (Pakistan).

Participants

We used data from non-pregnant adults (≥20 years) from the aforementioned cities that responded to a cost-of-illness questionnaire. We estimated health u

SUBMITTER: Gupta P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7528361 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature