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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Background An increase in healthcare utilization in response to universal health coverage may leave massive economic burden on individuals and households. Identifying catastrophic health expenditure helps us understand such burden.
Xi Li +4 more
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The effect of community based health insurance on catastrophic health expenditure in Northeast Ethiopia: A cross sectional study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 INTRODUCTION:Moving towards the goal of universal health coverage requires strengthening service delivery and overcoming significant financial barriers.
Asnakew Molla Mekonen +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 +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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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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Impact Of Health Policies On Catastrophic Health Expenditures In Turkey [PDF]
Value in Health, 2017 [Abstract Not Available]
Kockaya, G. +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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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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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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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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