Bukidnon State University

Paying for Pressure: How Hypertension Costs Push Mindanao’s Families Into Poverty

We commend Aduo-Adjei et al1 for their important contribution, “The Impoverishment Effect of Out-of-Pocket Expenditure for Hypertension in Ghana.” Their analysis demonstrates that out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for hypertension care increased the poverty headcount by 3.14% at the U...