Cost of integrated chronic care for severe non-communicable diseases at district hospitals in rural Rwanda.
Lauren Anne EberlyChristian RusangwaLoise Ng'ang'aClaire C NealJean Paul MukundiyukuriEgide MpanusingoJean Claude MungungaHamissy HabinezaTodd AndersonGedeon NgogaSymaque DusabeyezuGene KwanCharlotte BavumaEmmanual RusingizaFrancis MutabaziJoseph MucumbitsiCyprien GahamanyiCadet MutumbiraPaul H ParkTharcisse MpungaGene BukhmanPublished in: BMJ global health (2019)
This is the first study to evaluate the costs of integrated, decentralised chronic care for some severe NCDs in rural sub-Saharan Africa. The findings show that these services may be affordable to governments even in the most constrained health systems.