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Catastrophic pharmaceutical expenditure in patients with type 2 diabetes in Iran

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022
Objectives This study aimed to assess the financial burden of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments to purchase antidiabetic medicines for type 2 patients in Iran. Method The “budget share” and “capacity to pay” approaches were employed to assess the catastrophic
Leila Zarei, Najmeh Moradi, Farzad Peiravian, Nazafarin Hatami-Mazinani, Motahareh Mahi-Birjand, Jalal Arabloo, Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar   +6 more
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Correlates of Out-of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditures in Tanzania: Results from a National Household Survey. [PDF]

, 2014
Inequality in health services access and utilization are influenced by out-of-pocket health expenditures in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
A Basu, A Boutayeb, AL Coker, AS Duba, B Harris, B McElroy, CA Onoka, D Gregori, D McIntyre, DH Luong, E Albanese, E Van Doorslaer, EJ Kayombo, Ethel Mary Brinda, G Mtei, G Mtei, G Pablo, G Sen, GN Mbeh, J Sandefur, JA Schellenberg, JM Jefferis, JP Jütting, K Peltzer, K Xu, KS Jacob, LA Aday, LM Verhagen, LM Waweru, M Freeman, M Makinen, Ministry of Health, N Nxumalo, O Bhattacharyya, O Maestad, O Onwujekwe, P Musgrove, PH van Baal, R Kilian, R Uwakwe, RM Sousa, Rodriguez Antonio Andrés, S Haddad, S Osmani, S Vyas, TT Su, Ulrika Enemark, United Nations, WG Manning, WL Anderson, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, X You   +53 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure: A comparative analysis of smoking and non-smoking households in China.

PLoS ONE, 2020
INTRODUCTION:Smoking is hazardous to health and places a heavy economic burden on individuals and their families. Clearly, smoking in China is prevalent since China is the largest consumer of tobacco in the world.
Zhigang Zhong, Han Wei, Lian Yang, Tingting Yao, Zhengzhong Mao, Qun Sun   +5 more
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Examining inequities in incidence of catastrophic health expenditures on different healthcare services and health facilities in Nigeria. [PDF]

, 2012
OBJECTIVE: There is limited evidence about levels of socio-economic and other differences in catastrophic health spending in Nigeria and in many sub-Saharan African countries.
Hanson, Kara, Onwujekwe, Obinna, Uzochukwu, Benjamin   +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, Batbaatar, E, Svensson, M, Dorjsuren, B, Kauhanen, J   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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, Bernabé, Eduardo, Liu, Xuenan, Gallagher, Jennifer Elizabeth, Zheng, Shuguo   +4 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure and household impoverishment in Togo

Journal of Public Health Research, 2023
Background: The main way of financing healthcare in low-income countries continues to be out-of-pocket payments. Despite the efforts of national authorities and international partners to protect households from impoverishment arising from seeking healthcare, the risk of incurring catastrophic healthcare expenses remains very high for households in ...
Yacobou Sanoussi, Alexandre Yedjannavo Zounmenou, Muriel Ametoglo   +2 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, Milena Pavlova, Wim Groot   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The financial burden of morbidity in HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Côte d'Ivoire. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Large HIV care programs frequently subsidize antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and CD4 tests, but patients must often pay for other health-related drugs and services.
Arnousse Beaulière, Siaka Touré, Pierre-Kébreau Alexandre, Koko Koné, Alex Pouhé, Bertin Kouadio, Neige Journy, Jérôme Son, Virginie Ettiègne-Traoré, François Dabis, Serge Eholié, Xavier Anglaret   +11 more
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Changes in Catastrophic Health Expenditures Depending on Health Policies in Turkey

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Without any financial protection out of pocket health expenses are essential both because their increase causes difficulties in accessing higher quality health services for households and more importantly because it complicates access to most basic ...
Guvenc Kockaya, Gülpembe Oguzhan, Zafer Çalşkan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source