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Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis
Lancet, The, 2003Health policy makers have long been concerned with protecting people from the possibility that ill health will lead to catastrophic financial payments and subsequent impoverishment. Yet catastrophic expenditure is not rare. We investigated the extent of catastrophic health expenditure as a first step to developing appropriate policy responses.We used a
Christopher J L Murray, David B Evans
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Determinants of catastrophic health expenditure in Vietnam
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2020AbstractBackgroundThe Government of Vietnam has set the goal of achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2025. Health insurance (HI) is being considered a tool to achieve this goal. However, out‐of‐pocket spending and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) remain high. Research evidence on how to reduce these expenditures to achieve UHC is essential.
Nguyen Thi Thu Thuong +4 more
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Catastrophic Expenditure for Health in the Philippines
Acta Medica Philippina, 2022Catastrophic expenditure occurs when a household allocates more than 40% of its effective, or non-subsistence, income for health expenditures.1,2 In general, low-income households, those with older persons or persons with disabilities, and families with members requiring healthcare for chronic illnesses are more likely to experience this phenomenon.
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Abortion as a Catastrophic Health Expenditure in the United States
Women's Health Issues, 2020Abortion is a critical reproductive health service that is difficult for many in the United States to afford owing to policies aimed at restricting insurance coverage of this basic health service. This article assesses whether the resulting high out-of-pocket cost for abortion could be considered a catastrophic health expenditure, and explores ...
Carmela Zuniga +2 more
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Institutional Financing of Catastrophic Health Expenditures
Philippine Journal of Development, 2015Patients' financial protection is considered a key component of health systems and has been a consistent policy goal of the Department of Health. Of paramount importance are catastrophic health expenditures, which can severely restrict affected patients and families' access to much-needed services, contribute to (further) impoverishment, or both.
Valerie Gilbert Ulep +1 more
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Characteristics of Catastrophic Hospital Expenditures
1984Financially catastrophic illness occurs relatively infrequently. Depending on how it is defined, in any one year it affects 1.0 to 2.0% of the non-institutionalized population but accounts for about 20% of health care expenditures. This report of a study of the incidence and characteristics of catastrophic inpatient episodes is based on the analysis of
S. E. Berki +2 more
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BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF STUDIES ON CATASTROPHIC HEALTH EXPENDITURES
Ege Akademik Bakis (Ege Academic Review)According to World Health Organization, after meeting basic needs of household, spending on health equal to or more than 40 percent of their income is called catastrophic health expenditures (CHE). Individuals' out-of-pocket expenses for advanced treatments and the risk of being exposed to catastrophe have increased considerably.
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Post-marketing observational trials and catastrophic health expenditure
BMJ, 2012Over the past decade, one of the world’s largest insulin manufacturers, Novo Nordisk, has worked hard on its social responsibility profile. In 2001, the company launched an equity pricing scheme for its insulins in 50 of the world’s poorest countries.1 This might have been triggered by the unease felt across Denmark at the company’s participation, with
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Measuring catastrophic medical expenditures: Reflections on three issues
Health Economics, 2019AbstractIn the “basic” approach, medical expenses are catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percentage of consumption or income; the approach tells us if expenses cause a large percentage reduction in living standards. The ability‐to‐pay (ATP) approach defines expenses as catastrophic if they exceed a prespecified percentage of consumption less ...
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure: A Bibliometric Analysis
Beykoz Akademi DergisiThe aim of this study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of the studies in the literature on catastrophic health expenditures. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis of the articles on catastrophic health expenditure indexed in Web of Science (WoS) using VOSviewer (version 1.6.20) was performed.
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