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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  

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
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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, Mphatso S. Kamndaya, Salule J. Masangwi   +2 more
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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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Cost of hospitalisation for non-communicable diseases in India: are we pro-poor? [PDF]

, 2016
OBJECTIVES: To estimate out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure due to hospitalisation from NCDs and its impact on households in India. METHODS: The study analysed nationwide representative data collected by the National Sample Survey Organisation in 2014 that ...
Chadha, S, Harries, AD, Kumar, AMV, Prasad, BM, Shewade, HD, Tonsing, J, Tripathy, JP, Zachariah, R   +7 more
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Comparative health systems analysis of differences in the catastrophic health expenditure associated with non-communicable vs communicable diseases among adults in six countries

Health Policy and Planning, 2022
The growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries may have implications for health system performance in the area of financial risk protection, as measured by catastrophic health expenditure (CHE).
Annie Haakenstad, M. Coates, Gene Buhkman, M. McConnell, S. Verguet   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Abdulazeez Opeyemi Abdulganiyu   +2 more
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
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Elderly chronic diseases and catastrophic health expenditure: an important cause of Borderline Poor Families’ return to poverty in rural China

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
The huge health expenditure for chronic diseases in the elderly is one of the uncertain factors that may cause the Borderline poor families to return to poverty after China fully lifts itself out of poverty in 2020, especially in rural low-income areas ...
Xiaocang Xu, Haoran Yang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Examining catastrophic health expenditures at variable thresholds using household consumption expenditure diaries [PDF]

Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2011
SummaryObjective  Using uniform thresholds and a set of variable threshold levels, this study examined the incidence of catastrophe amongst households of different socio‐economic status (SES) quintiles.Methods  A household diary was used to collect illness and household consumption expenditure data from 1128 households over 1 month. Catastrophic health
Chima A, Onoka, Obinna E, Onwujekwe, Kara, Hanson, Benjamin S, Uzochukwu   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources