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Socioeconomic inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in Brazil [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2014
OBJECTIVE To analyze the evolution of catastrophic health expenditure and the inequalities in such expenses, according to the socioeconomic characteristics of Brazilian families.METHODS Data from the National Household Budget 2002-2003 (48,470 households) and 2008-2009 (55,970 households) were analyzed.
Boing, Alexandra Crispim, Bertoldi, Andrea Damaso, Dornellas de Barros, Aluisio Jardim, Posenato, Leila Garcia, Peres, Karen Glazer   +4 more
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Catastrophic health expenditures in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study [PDF]

Health Promotion Perspectives, 2023
Background: Financial protection of populations against healthcare costs is one of the fundamental responsibilities of governments. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and it’s affecting factors in ...
Zahra Gheinali, Esmaeil Moshiri, Masoumeh Ebrahimi Tavani, Mehdi Haghi, Farid Gharibi   +4 more
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Incidence of catastrophic health expenditures for households: An example of medical attention for the treatment of severe childhood malaria in Kinshasa reference hospitals, Democratic Republic of Congo

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2015
Summary: This study aimed to estimate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures faced by households in Kinshasa with children affected by severe malaria.
Félicien Ilunga-Ilunga, Alain Levêque, Samia Laokri, Michèle Dramaix   +3 more
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Financial burden imposed on the insured patients for private treatment: Evidence from a state of Iran

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2019
INTRODUCTION: Protection against financial risks is one of the important goals of the health system. The present study aims to determine the rate of exposure to catastrophic expenditures in the insured inpatients.
Manal Etemadi, Mohammad Shiri, Elham Rostami, Mohammad Mohseni, Masumeh Seyedi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket health expenditures in patients living with ınborn errors of metabolism

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2023
Aim The implementation of newborn screening programs for inborn errors of metabolism has advanced the diagnosis and management of affected infants and undoubtedly improved their outcomes.
Mehmet Gündüz, Yasemin Yüksel Güdek, Çiğdem Seher Kasapkara   +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, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Levison S. Chiwaula   +2 more
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Examining catastrophic costs and benefit incidence of subsidized antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme in south-east Nigeria.

, 2008
OBJECTIVES: To examine the extent to which costs of subsidized antiretrovirals treatment (ART) programmes are catastrophic and the benefit incidence that accrues to different population groups.
Chukwuka, Chinwe, Dike, Nkem, Ichoku, Hyacinth, Onoka, Chima, Onwujekwe, Obinna, Onyedum, Cajetan, Uzochukwu, Benjamin   +6 more
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The Impact of Catastrophic Medical Insurance in China: A five-year patient-level panel study

The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific, 2021
Background: In an effort to provide greater financial protection from the risk of large medical expenditures, China has gradually added catastrophic medical insurance (CMI) to the various basic insurance schemes.
Min Yu, Jieming Zhong, Ruying Hu, Xiangyu Chen, Chunmei Wang, Kaixu Xie, Merrell Guzman, Xiaotong Gui, Sandra Tian-Jiao Kong, Tingting Qu, Karen Eggleston   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining catastrophic health expenditures at variable thresholds using household consumption expenditure diaries [PDF]

Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2011
SummaryObjective  Using uniform thresholds and a set of variable threshold levels, this study examined the incidence of catastrophe amongst households of different socio‐economic status (SES) quintiles.Methods  A household diary was used to collect illness and household consumption expenditure data from 1128 households over 1 month. Catastrophic health
Chima A, Onoka, Obinna E, Onwujekwe, Kara, Hanson, Benjamin S, Uzochukwu   +3 more
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Equitable realization of the right to health in Haiti: how household data inform health seeking behavior and financial risk protection

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Though the right to health is included in Haiti’s constitution, little progress has been made to expand universal health coverage nationwide, a strategy to ensure access to health services for all, while preventing financial hardship among the
Marion Cros, Eleonora Cavagnero, Jean Patrick Alfred, Mirja Sjoblom, Nicolas Collin, Tania Mathurin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source