Coping with the cost burdens of illness: combining qualitative and quantitative methods in longitudinal, household research.
Over the last 10-15 years, poor African households have had to cope with the burden of increased levels of chronic illness such as HIV/AIDS. How do these households cope with the cost burdens of ill health and healthcare, and has this burden further impoverished them? What policy responses might better support these households? This is a report from the field of the South African Costs and Coping study (SACOCO) - a longitudinal investigation of household experiences in the Agincourt health and demographic surveillance site.
Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. jane.goudge@nhls.ac.za
Jane
J
Goudge
Tebogo
T
Gumede
Lucy
L
Gilson
Steve
S
Russell
Stephen M
SM
Tollman
Anne
A
Mills
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003710:Demography; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005191:Family Characteristics; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011203:Poverty; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology