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Economic Burden of Typhoid among Hospitalized Children in Kenya

2025-12-11 health economics Title + abstract only
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Typhoid remains endemic in many low and middle-income countries, with the highest incidence reported in children under 15 years. No published study has estimated the cost of hospitalized paediatric typhoid cases in Kenya. This analysis estimated the direct medical, direct non-medical, and indirect costs from the healthcare provider and societal perspectives and assessed the proportion of households that would experience catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) due to the disease. Patient-level dat...

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