Stephen Mulupi and Tom Wingfield on the financial burden of chronic respiratory diseases in Kenya
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Stephen Mulupi and Tom Wingfield on the financial burden of chronic respiratory diseases in Kenya
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Chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma are on the rise in many countries, including low-income and middle-income countries such as Kenya that also have a sizeable burden of tuberculosis.
What does this mean for patients in terms of the affordability of potentially long-term management? How are government-run social health insurance schemes working for individuals and their families? And what might be the individual-level drivers of catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket health expenditure in this population?
Listen to first author Dr Stephen Mulupi and corresponding author Dr Tom Wingfield discuss the nuances of their cross-sectional survey in public health-care facilities in Meru County, Kenya and what they mean for government policy going forward.
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https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(25)00061-0/fulltext?dgcid=buzzsprout_icw_podcast_June_25_langlo
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