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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 +4 more
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Can insurance reduce catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure? [PDF]
, 2008 In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into poverty ...
Rama Joglekar
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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 +5 more
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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 remains very high for households in ...
Sanoussi Y, Zounmenou AY, Ametoglo M.
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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 health expenditure and household 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. We develop a conceptual framework for addressing three questions in relation to this methodology, namely: 1. Can a budget share be informative about the sign of a change in welfare? 2.
Abul Naga Ramses, H., Lamiraud, Karine
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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 +4 more
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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 +4 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 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 +2 more
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