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National and Provincial Estimates of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and its Determinants in Nepal
Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2021 Background: Despite various supply-side efforts, out of pocket expenditure occupies a considerable portion of healthcare financing in Nepal. With the recent process of federalization in country, there is additional scope for contextualized planning at ...
Arjun Kumar Thapa, Achyut Raj Pandey
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PLoS ONE, 2023 IntroductionAs the rate of end-stage kidney disease rises, there is an urgent need to consider the catastrophic health expenditure of post-transplantation care. Even a small amount of out-of-pocket payment for healthcare can negatively affect households'
Peter Gan Kim Soon +3 more
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Catastrophic Medical Expenditure Risk [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 We propose a measure of household exposure to particularly onerous medical expenses. The measure can be decomposed into the probability that medical expenditure exceeds a threshold, the loss due to predictably low consumption of other goods if it does and the further loss arising from the volatility of medical expenses above the threshold. Depending on
Gabriela Flores, Owen O'Donnell
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Background An increase in healthcare utilization in response to universal health coverage may leave massive economic burden on individuals and households. Identifying catastrophic health expenditure helps us understand such burden.
Xi Li +4 more
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The effect of community based health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure in Northeast Ethiopia: A cross sectional study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 INTRODUCTION:Moving towards the goal of universal health coverage requires strengthening service delivery and overcoming significant financial barriers.
Asnakew Molla Mekonen +2 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016 The social health insurance coverage is relatively high in Mongolia; however, escalation of out-of-pocket payments for health care, which reached 41 % of the total health expenditure in 2011, is a policy concern. The aim of this study is to analyse the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health ...
Dorjdagva, J +4 more
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Determinants of catastrophic healthcare expenditure in Peru [PDF]
International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2018 The aims of this study were to assess factors associated with catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) and the burden of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for specific healthcare services in Peru. We used data from 30,966 households that participated in the 2016 National Household Survey (Encuesta Nacional de Hogares, ENAHO).
Diego Proaño Falconi, Eduardo Bernabé
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Determinants of Catastrophic Dental Health Expenditure in China [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2016 This study explored catastrophic health expenditure in China, due to out-of-pocket payments for dental care, and its associated individual- and contextual-level factors. We pooled data from 31,566 adults who participated in the third National Oral Health Survey with province-level data from different sources.
Sun, Xiangyu +4 more
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Catastrophic health care expenditure and impoverishment in Bhutan
Health Policy and Planning, 2022 Abstract Monitoring financial hardship due to out-of-pocket spending on health care is a critical determinant of progress towards universal health coverage. This study investigates the occurrence, intensity and determinants of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Bhutan using three rounds of the cross-sectional Bhutan ...
Jayendra Sharma +2 more
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree to which the Chinese people are protected from catastrophic household expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses and to explore the health system and structural factors influencing the first of these outcomes ...
Ye Li +7 more
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