The economic burden of low back pain in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: A prevalence-based cost-of-illness analysis from the healthcare provider’s perspective

• Morris Kahere ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mrrskhr@gmail.com

  Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3669-9768

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• Cebisile Ngcamphalala,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cancer & Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit (CIDERU), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2960-1558

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• Ellinor Östensson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Themba Ginindza

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Cancer & Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Research Unit (CIDERU), College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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