African Conservation Centre

Household catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure and the socioeconomic burden of paediatric surgery: a cross-sectional study at the highest tertiary hospital in Zambia

Globally, about 81 million people per year are driven to financial catastrophe from the costs of surgery and other related nonmedical costs, with low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bearing the greatest burden. This study determined the catastrophic out-of-pocket (OOP) healt...