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Catastrophic and impoverishing out-of-pocket health expenditure in Ethiopia: evidence from the Ethiopia socioeconomic survey

Health Economics Review
Background Out-of-pocket payment remains one of the ways to finance health care in Ethiopia accounting 31%. These out-of-pocket health expense leads citizens’ face catastrophic and impoverishing expenditure.
Yamlak Bereket Tadiwos, Meseret Molla Kassahun, Anagaw Derseh Mebratie   +2 more
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Effect of urban and rural resident basic medical insurance on catastrophic health expenditure in China

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng
ObjectiveTo analyze the impact of the urban and rural resident basic medical insurance on catastrophic health expenditure in Chinese residents. MethodsData from the 2020 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) were used.
Wendi LIU, Zihan XU, Yan WANG, Ziyi WANG, Faqiang ZHANG, Kehu YANG, Xuefeng WEI, Xiuxia LI   +7 more
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Financial Burden and Catastrophic Health Expenditure Associated with COVID-19 Hospitalizations in Kerala, South India

ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2022
Ronnie Thomas,1 Quincy Mariam Jacob,1 Sharon Raj Eliza,2 Malathi Mini,1 Jobinse Jose,3 Sobha A1 1Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College Kottayam, Kottayam, Kerala, India; 2Department of Community Medicine, Pushpagiri Institute of ...
Thomas R, Jacob QM, Raj Eliza S, Mini M, Jose J, A S   +5 more
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Next‐Generation Water Treatment With Molybdenum Disulfide: Dual‐Functionality in Pollutant Adsorption and Photocatalysis

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has attracted attention as a promising material due to the growing demand for environmentally friendly, cost‐effective, and efficient water treatment techniques. With its physicochemical characteristics, this stratified bidimensional material allows it to be highly effective in adsorption and catalytic performance ...
Pariksha Bishnoi, Gunjan Chauhan, Phil Hart, Samarjeet Singh Siwal, Vijay Kumar Thakur   +4 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Impoverishment: a case of NCDs prevalence in Kenya

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022
ntroduction and problem: Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have become one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in Kenya. Their claim on financial and time resources adversely affects household welfare. Health care cost for NCDs in Kenya is
Daniel Mwai, Moses Muriithi
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A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures

Health Economics
ABSTRACTIn this paper, we propose a simple Watts‐type measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) which is an adaptation of the classic Watts poverty measure. The appeal of the proposed measure stems from the fact that it is both additively decomposable (i.e., it provides information on the contributions of the various population subgroups of ...
Tomson Ogwang, Germano Mwabu
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Improving the Robustness of Visual Teach‐and‐Repeat Navigation Using Drift Error Correction and Event‐Based Vision for Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Visual teach‐and‐repeat (VTR) navigation allows robots to learn and follow routes without building a full metric map. We show that navigation accuracy for VTR can be improved by integrating a topological map with error‐drift correction based on stereo vision.
Fuhai Ling, Ze Huang, Tony J. Prescott
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Catastrophic health expenditure and health-related quality of life among older adults in Shandong, China: the moderation effect of daily care by adult children

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) has a considerable impact on older people in later life, but little is known about the relationship between catastrophic health expenditure and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The aim of this study
Jiayan Li, Tingting Gao, Dan Zhao, Shujun Chai, Jingjing Luo, Xuehong Wang, Xueqing Wang, Jingjie Sun, Peilong Li, Chengchao Zhou   +9 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure incidence and its equity in China: a study on the initial implementation of the medical insurance integration system

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background By 2013, several regions in China had introduced health insurance integration policies. However, few studies addressed the impact of medical insurance integration in China. This study investigates the catastrophic health expenditure and equity
Huan Liu, Hong Zhu, Jiahui Wang, Xinye Qi, Miaomiao Zhao, Linghan Shan, Lijun Gao, Zheng Kang, Mingli Jiao, Lin Pan, Ruohui Chen, Baohua Liu, Qunhong Wu, Ning Ning   +13 more
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Determinants of out-of-pocket health expenditure and their welfare implications in a South African context

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2018
This study aims to quantify the extent of catastrophic household health expenditures on welfare and determine factors influencing it. A logistic regression model based on the logit link function was used to predict the probability of catastrophic health ...
Ali Babikir, Ali Satty, Henry Mwambi
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