Examining the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and its determinants using multilevel logistic regression in Malawi. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundDespite a free access to public health services policy in most sub-Saharan African countries, households still contribute to total health expenditures through out-of-pocket expenditures.
Atupele N Mulaga +2 more
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How Do Intergenerational Economic Support, Emotional Support and Multimorbidity Affect the Catastrophic Health Expenditures of Middle-Aged and Elderly Families?–Evidence From CHARLS2018 [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 ObjectivesThe elderly face multiple vulnerabilities such as health, economy and society, and are prone to catastrophic health expenditures. This study aims to analyze the impact of children's intergenerational economic support, emotional support, and ...
Shaoliang Tang +7 more
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Inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected areas and the Colombian peace agreement: an oaxaca-blinder change decomposition analysis [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background The present study analyzes inequalities in catastrophic health expenditures in conflict-affected regions of Meta, Colombia and socioeconomic factors contributing to the existence and changes in catastrophic expenditures before and after the ...
Sebastián León-Giraldo +6 more
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Changes in Catastrophic Health Expenditures Depending on Health Policies in Turkey [PDF]
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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Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria
Health Economics Review, 2022 Background The Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since it’s became operational in 2005. However, many Nigerians still pay out of pocket for medical expenses, and this drive them to incurring ...
Henry C. Edeh
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Relationship Between Catastrophic Health Expenditures and Income Quintile Decline [PDF]
Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2018 Objectives The aims of this study were to investigate the proportion of households facing catastrophic health expenditures based on household income quintiles, and to analyze the relationship between expenditures and household income quintile decline ...
Jeong-Hee Kang, Chul-Woung Kim
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Catastrophic health expenditures in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study [PDF]
Health Promotion Perspectives, 2023 Background: Financial protection of populations against healthcare costs is one of the fundamental responsibilities of governments. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and it’s affecting factors in ...
Zahra Gheinali +4 more
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A STUDY OF CATASTROPHIC HEALTH EXPENDITURES IN INDIA - EVIDENCE FROM NATIONALLY REPRESENTATIVE SURVEY DATA: 2014-2018 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2022 Background: India is taking steps to provide Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Out-of-pocket (OOP) health care payment is the most important mechanism for health care payment in India.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
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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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Examining inequities in incidence of catastrophic health expenditures on different healthcare services and health facilities in Nigeria. [PDF]
, 2012 OBJECTIVE: There is limited evidence about levels of socio-economic and other differences in catastrophic health spending in Nigeria and in many sub-Saharan African countries.
Hanson, Kara +2 more
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