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Catastrophic health expenditure and household impoverishment in Togo. [PDF]

J Public Health Res, 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
Sanoussi Y, Zounmenou AY, Ametoglo M.
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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, M Karami, F Najafi, B Karami Matin   +3 more
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Regional catastrophic health expenditure and health inequality in China. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2023
BackgroundCatastrophic health expenditures (CHE) can trigger illness-caused poverty and compound poverty-caused illness. Our study is the first regional comparative study to analyze CHE trends and health inequality in eastern, central and western China, exploring the differences and disparities across regions to make targeted health policy ...
Wang X, Guo Y, Qin Y, Nicholas S, Maitland E, Liu C.   +5 more
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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.
Alexandra Crispim Boing, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi, Aluísio Jardim Dornellas de Barros, Leila Garcia Posenato, Karen Glazer Peres   +4 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
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Household catastrophic health expenditure related to pain in Korea. [PDF]

Korean J Pain, 2023
The data related to pain and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) needed to be further explored. This study aims to understand the relationship between pain and CHE.Using cross-sectional analysis of 4-year data (2015-2018) from the Korea Health Panel, the prevalence of CHE and adjusted odds ratio (AOR) by pain type were confirmed.Among participants (n
Shin SM.
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Catastrophic health expenditure and associated factors among adult diabetes patients at the University of Gondar Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Introduction Out-of-pocket health expenditures pose a substantial financial burden for millions of people worldwide. Diabetes patients without financial protection often face catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure. However, the catastrophic out-of-
Kibret Mesgie, Asmamaw Atnafu, Tesfahun Zemene Tafere, Nigusu Worku, Banchlay Addis, Asebe Hagos   +5 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, Bruno Meessen, Ir Por, Katharina Kober   +3 more
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Effect of socioeconomic status and healthcare provider on post-transplantation care in Malaysia: A multi-centre survey of kidney transplant recipients.

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionAs the rate of end-stage kidney disease rises, there is an urgent need to consider the catastrophic health expenditure of post-transplantation care. Even a small amount of out-of-pocket payment for healthcare can negatively affect households'
Peter Gan Kim Soon, Sanjay Rampal, Soo Kun Lim, Tin Tin Su   +3 more
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National and Provincial Estimates of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and its Determinants in Nepal

Journal of Nepal Health Research Council, 2021
Background: Despite various supply-side efforts, out of pocket expenditure occupies a considerable portion of healthcare financing in Nepal. With the recent process of federalization in country, there is additional scope for contextualized planning at ...
Arjun Kumar Thapa, Achyut Raj Pandey
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