Abstract:Background: Diabetes Mellitus is a long term disease which require higher medical expenditure. If inadequately treated or undiagnosed, it leads to multiple chronic complications, which again increase the expenditure multi-fold. Gender has got implications in diabetes care due to sex differences as well as that of social inequities entrenched within gender. This study is done to compare quarterly Out of Pocket expenditure (OOPE) on diabetes care with gender as a covariate. Methods : Quarterly OOPE is defined as… Show more
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