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Regional catastrophic health expenditure and health inequality in China
Frontiers in 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 ...
Xinyue Wang +8 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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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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Impact Of Health Policies On Catastrophic Health Expenditures In Turkey [PDF]
Value in Health, 2017 [Abstract Not Available]
Aygun, A. +3 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives We aimed to determine the rate of catastrophic health expenditure incurred by women using maternal healthcare services at faith-based hospitals in Madagascar.Design This was a secondary analysis of programmatic data obtained from a non ...
Till Bärnighausen +6 more
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012 OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree to which the Chinese people are protected from catastrophic household expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses and to explore the health system and structural factors influencing the first of these outcomes ...
Ye Li +7 more
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Impact of Catastrophic Health Expenditures on Chinese Household Consumption [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 China has built a social medical insurance system that covers the entire population so as to reduce the impact of diseases on individuals and families. Although the decline in the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) in China is encouraging, this issue remains important. On the basis of considering selectivity bias and heterogeneity, we
Ning Wei, Wenhao Huang, Lü-lin Zhou
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background Over the years, the Kyrgyz Republic has implemented health reforms that target health financing with the aim of removing financial barriers to healthcare including out-of-pocket health payments (OOPPs). This study examines the trends in OOPPs,
Mariia Iamshchikova +2 more
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The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures [PDF]
The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994 The authors measure the time-series property of catastrophic medical costs facing the elderly using information on medical deductions from a panel of tax returns. During the period of analysis, 1968-73, taxpayers could deduct medical expenses above 3 percent of income.
Daniel Feenberg, Jonathan Skinner
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Catastrophic household expenditure on health in Nepal: a cross-sectional survey
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014 Objective To determine the incidence of – and illnesses commonly associated with – catastrophic household expenditure on health in Nepal. Methods We did a cross-sectional population-based survey in five municipalities of Kathmandu Valley between ...
Eiko Saito +5 more
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