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Catastrophic health expenditure among Chinese adults living alone with cognitive impairment: findings from the CHARLS

BMC Geriatrics, 2022
Background The catastrophic health expenditure of older adults results in serious consequences; however, the issue of whether cognitive status and living situations contribute to such financial burdens is uncertain. Our aim was to compare the differences
Chenxi Li, Shuyi Jin, Xingqi Cao, Ling Han, Ning Sun, Heather Allore, Emiel O. Hoogendijk, Xin Xu, Qiushi Feng, Xiaoting Liu, Zuyun Liu   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Equity and extent of financial risk protection indicators during COVID-19 pandemic in rural part of Tamil Nadu, India

Heliyon, 2023
Catastrophic health expenditure [CHE] in India is on a rise. This situation would worsen even further when resources are disproportionately distributed across various socioeconomic classes.
Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Sathish Rajaa, Isha Sinha, Murali Krishnan, Gerald Samuel, Krishna Kanth   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multiple Sclerosis and Catastrophic Health Expenditure in Iran

Global Journal of Health Science, 2016
<p><strong>BACKGROUND: </strong>There are many disabling medical conditions which can result in catastrophic health expenditure. Multiple Sclerosis is one of the most costly medical conditions through the world which encounter families to the catastrophic health expenditures.
Juyani Y, Hamedi D, Hosseini Jebeli SS, Qasham M   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The Study of Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Impoverishment of Households based on Life-cycle Theory using Pseudo-Panel Approach [PDF]

پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2020
This study aims to investigate the percentage of households facing catastrophic health expenditure and the impoverishment index before and after the implementation of the Health System Reform Plan (HSRP) in rural and urban areas of Iran. This research is
mandana atefi, hossein raghfar, mir hossein Mousavi, Esmaeil Safarzadeh   +3 more
doaj  

A Dislocation Perspective on Strength and Toughness in Ceramics

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Dislocations in ceramics enjoy a long but yet under‐appreciated history. The three research waves for dislocations in ceramics highlight the topic evolution over the last 90 years. This review focuses on the impact of dislocation on strength and toughness in ceramics.
Xufei Fang
wiley   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic health expenditure for hospitalization due to injuries in public sector hospitals in North India.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BACKGROUND:Injuries are a major public health problem, resulting in high health care demand and economic burden. They result in loss of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) and high out-of-pocket expenditure.
Shankar Prinja, Jagnoor Jagnoor, Deepshikha Sharma, Sameer Aggarwal, Swati Katoch, P V M Lakshmi, Rebecca Ivers   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Catastrophic health expenditure among geriatric population of Lucknow district, India

Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2017
Background: Health system that is chiefly financed by out of pocket expenditure can have varying impact on patients belonging to different income groups.
Pavan Pandey, Shivendra Kumar Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Measurement and determinants of financial protection in health in Afghanistan

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Out of pocket (OOP) payments for health are significant health financing challenges in Afghanistan as it is a source of incurrence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and impoverishment. Measuring and understanding the drivers and impacts
Ilker Dastan, Asiyeh Abbasi, Chokri Arfa, Mir Najmuddin Hashimi, Said Mohammad Karim Alawi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Holistic Stabilization of the Anode in Lithium‐Sulfur Batteries Through a Ternary Alloy Fusion

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
LiTeAl anodes fabricated through a scalable thermal fusion technique holistically addresses the stability issues faced by lithium‐metal anodes in lithium–sulfur batteries. Aluminum forming a skeletal network with lithium suppresses dendrite growth and enhances energy density, while tellurium forming a robust SEI facilitates Li+‐ion flow.
Akhil Shenoy, Arumugam Manthiram
wiley   +1 more source

Decomposing socio-economic inequality in catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditures in Malawi

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Reducing health inequalities and inequities is one of the key goals that health systems aspire to achieve as it ensures improvement in health outcomes among all population groups.
Atupele N. Mulaga, Mphatso S. Kamndaya, Salule J. Masangwi   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources