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Trends in catastrophic health expenditure in India: 1993 to 2014. [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: To investigate trends in out-of-pocket health-care payments and catastrophic health expenditure in India by household age composition. METHODS: We obtained data from four national consumer expenditure surveys and three health-care utilization ...
Clarke, Lynda +3 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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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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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 +2 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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Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017 Out of pocket (OOP) health spending can potentially expose households to risk of incurring large medical bills, and this may impact on their welfare. This work investigates the effect of catastrophic OOP on the incidence and depth of poverty in Malawi.The paper is based on data that was collected from 12,271 households that were interviewed during the ...
Martina Mchenga +2 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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PLoS ONE, 2014 ObjectiveTo determine whether the New Cooperative Medical Insurance Scheme (NCMS) is associated with decreased levels of catastrophic health expenditure and reduced impoverishment due to medical expenses in rural households of China.MethodsAn analysis of
Ye Li +9 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundOut of Pocket (OOP) payment continues to persist as the major mode of payment for healthcare in Nigeria despite the introduction of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Although the burden of health expenditure has been examined in some
Taiwo A Obembe +2 more
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Who Have a Higher Risk of Falling Into Catastrophic Health Expenditures?
Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2021 Catastrophic health expenditure is one of the challenges Indonesia faces in achieving Universal Health Coverage. Aside from being a financial disaster, the incident caused by out-of-pocket health expenditure exceeding a fixed limit can drive people into ...
Amalia Noviani
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