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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 +2 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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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
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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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International Journal for Equity in HealthBackground 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 +9 more
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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 +13 more
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A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures
Health EconomicsABSTRACTIn 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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Continual Learning for Multimodal Data Fusion of a Soft Gripper
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Models trained on a single data modality often struggle to generalize when exposed to a different modality. This work introduces a continual learning algorithm capable of incrementally learning different data modalities by leveraging both class‐incremental and domain‐incremental learning scenarios in an artificial environment where labeled data is ...
Nilay Kushawaha, Egidio Falotico
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Out-of-pocket payment for assisted reproductive techniques in the public health sector in South Africa - how do households cope? [PDF]
, 2011 Includes bibliographical references.In South Africa assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are poorly covered by health insurances or government funding thereby often inflicting out-of-pocket payment (OPP) on patients.
Sherwood, Kerry Anne
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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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