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Household Catastrophic Health Expenditure [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2011 Background: Fairness in financial contribution for health was determined by WHO (World Health Report, 2000) as the third goal of health systems which is measured by fairness in financial contribution index (FFCI).
A Daneshkohan +3 more
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Catastrophic Health ExpenditureandHousehold Well-Being [PDF]
, 2008 According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a household is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold.
Karine Lamiraud, Ramses H. Abul Naga
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Iranian Household Financial Protection against Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2012 Background: Protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. In this regard, Iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health ...
M Nekoei Moghadam +4 more
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Understanding catastrophic healthcare expenditures - Implications for research
Current Medical Issues, 2023 Hari Teja Avirneni +2 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure in Iran: A Review Article
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 Background: One of the main challenges of healthcare systems is to protect people from consequences of health expenditures. Such expenditures may lead to catastrophic financial loss in families so that many people deny demanding necessary healthcare ...
Aidin ARYANKHESAL +4 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure [PDF]
The Lancet, 2003 Sir—Ke Xu and colleagues’ article1 raises important questions about health expenditure and the financial security of households, an issue that has, as noted by the authors, “long been ignored on the health policy agenda”. Xu and co-workers’ study adds to the evidence on the effect of health systems on households, and the time has come to put this and ...
Wim Van Damme +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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Catastrophic expenditure on medicines in Brazil [PDF]
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2016 ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To describe the magnitude of the expenditure on medicines in Brazil according to region, household size and composition in terms of residents in a situation of dependency. METHODS Population-based data from the national household survey were used, with probabilistic sample, applied between September 2013 and February 2014 in ...
Luiza, Vera Lucia +8 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectivesThe elderly face multiple vulnerabilities such as health, economy and society, and are prone to catastrophic health expenditures. This study aims to analyze the impact of children's intergenerational economic support, emotional support, and ...
Shaoliang Tang +7 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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