Out-of-pocket payment for surgery in Uganda: The rate of impoverishing and catastrophic expenditure at a government hospital

• Geoffrey A. Anderson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Lenka Ilcisin,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8934-5029

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• Peter Kayima,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Lenard Abesiga,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Noralis Portal Benitez,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Joseph Ngonzi,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Mayanja Ronald,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

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• Mark G. Shrime

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Shrime@mail.harvard.edu

  Affiliation Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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