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Catastrophic household expenditure on health in Nepal: a cross-sectional survey
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014 Objective To determine the incidence of – and illnesses commonly associated with – catastrophic household expenditure on health in Nepal. Methods We did a cross-sectional population-based survey in five municipalities of Kathmandu Valley between ...
Eiko Saito +5 more
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Impact of Catastrophic Health Expenditures on Chinese Household Consumption [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 China has built a social medical insurance system that covers the entire population so as to reduce the impact of diseases on individuals and families. Although the decline in the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) in China is encouraging, this issue remains important. On the basis of considering selectivity bias and heterogeneity, we
Ning Wei, Wenhao Huang, Lü-lin Zhou
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The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures [PDF]
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994 The authors measure the time-series property of catastrophic medical costs facing the elderly using information on medical deductions from a panel of tax returns. During the period of analysis, 1968-73, taxpayers could deduct medical expenses above 3 percent of income.
Daniel Feenberg, Jonathan Skinner
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundOut of Pocket (OOP) payment continues to persist as the major mode of payment for healthcare in Nigeria despite the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Although the burden of health expenditure has been examined in some
Taiwo A Obembe +2 more
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Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017 Out of pocket (OOP) health spending can potentially expose households to risk of incurring large medical bills, and this may impact on their welfare. This work investigates the effect of catastrophic OOP on the incidence and depth of poverty in Malawi.The paper is based on data that was collected from 12,271 households that were interviewed during the ...
Martina Mchenga +2 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives We aimed to determine the rate of catastrophic health expenditure incurred by women using maternal healthcare services at faith-based hospitals in Madagascar.Design This was a secondary analysis of programmatic data obtained from a non ...
Till Bärnighausen +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 ObjectiveTo determine whether the New Cooperative Medical Insurance Scheme (NCMS) is associated with decreased levels of catastrophic health expenditure and reduced impoverishment due to medical expenses in rural households of China.MethodsAn analysis of
Ye Li +9 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty in Pakistan
The Pakistan Development Review, 2021 The current study has estimated the incidences, intensity and impacts of catastrophic health expenditures for Pakistan. For the analysis, two thresholds are used to define catastrophic health payments (1) if health expenditures are 10 percent or above of household consumption, and (2) if they are 40 percent or above of household
Shujaat Farooq, Faham Masud
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PLoS ONE, 2019 BACKGROUND:Injuries are a major public health problem, resulting in high health care demand and economic burden. They result in loss of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and high out-of-pocket expenditure.
Shankar Prinja +6 more
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Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic costs due to COVID-19 in Indonesia: A rapid online survey
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundThe Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created a substantial socioeconomic impact, particularly in developing countries such as Indonesia.Purpose(s)/objective(s)This study aimed to describe the COVID-19-related out-of-pocket ...
Firdaus Hafidz +9 more
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