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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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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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Trends in catastrophic health expenditure in India: 1993 to 2014 [PDF]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2017 To investigate trends in out-of-pocket health-care payments and catastrophic health expenditure in India by household age composition.We obtained data from four national consumer expenditure surveys and three health-care utilization surveys conducted between 1993 and 2014. Households were divided into five groups by age composition.
Pandey, A +3 more
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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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Catastrophic expenditure for health care in Myanmar [PDF]
, 2015 Protecting households from the catastrophic health care expenditure is important for every health system because it can prevent some people from seeking care and result in impoverishment. Therefore, this cross-sectional study was done in 2014 to determine the magnitude of the catastrophic health care expenditure and its relationship with income ...
Win Myint Oo +6 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 +3 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Trend of South Korea in 2020 [PDF]
, 2022 Catastrophic healthcare expenditure refers to out-of-pocket spending for healthcare exceeding a certain proportion of a household's income and can lead to subsequent impoverishment.
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Trend of South Korea in 2019 [PDF]
, 2020 Catastrophic health expenditure refers to measure the level of the economic burden of households due to medical expenses. Thepurpose of this study was to examine the proportion of households that experienced catastrophic health expenditure between ...
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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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