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| Title |
Household cost of out-patient treatment of Buruli ulcer in Ghana: a case study of Obom in Ga South Municipality
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| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-13-507 |
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| Authors |
Hannah Brown Amoakoh, Moses Aikins |
| Abstract |
The economic burden of diseases has become increasingly relevant to policy makers as healthcare expenditure keep rising in the face of limited and competing resources. Buruli ulcer (BU), a neglected but treatable tropical disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, the only known environmental mycobacterium is capable of causing long term disability when left untreated. However, most BU studies have tended to focused on its bacteriology, epidemiology, entomology and other social determinants to the neglect of its economic evaluation. This paper reports estimated the household economic costs of BU and describe the intangible cost suffered by BU patients in an endemic area. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 131 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 19% |
| Researcher | 17 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 11 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 8% |
| Other | 23 | 17% |
| Unknown | 32 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 34 | 26% |
| Social Sciences | 15 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 9% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 9 | 7% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 22 | 17% |
| Unknown | 36 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 November 2015.
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#6,933,036
of 22,733,113 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,403
of 7,609 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#83,356
of 306,767 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#44
of 116 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,733,113 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,609 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
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