Impact of Catastrophic Health Expenditures on Chinese Household Consumption. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2021 China has built a social medical insurance system that covers the entire population so as to reduce the impact of diseases on individuals and families. Although the decline in the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) in China is encouraging, this issue remains important. On the basis of considering selectivity bias and heterogeneity, we
Wei N, Huang W, Zhou LL.
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Iranian Household Financial Protection against Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2012 Background: Protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. In this regard, Iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health ...
M Nekoei Moghadam +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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Catastrophic Health Expenditure in Iran: A Review Article
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 Background: One of the main challenges of healthcare systems is to protect people from consequences of health expenditures. Such expenditures may lead to catastrophic financial loss in families so that many people deny demanding necessary healthcare ...
Aidin ARYANKHESAL +4 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure [PDF]
The Lancet, 2003 Sir—Ke Xu and colleagues’ article1 raises important questions about health expenditure and the financial security of households, an issue that has, as noted by the authors, “long been ignored on the health policy agenda”. Xu and co-workers’ study adds to the evidence on the effect of health systems on households, and the time has come to put this and ...
Wim Van Damme +3 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 +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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Regional catastrophic health expenditure and health inequality in China
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundCatastrophic health expenditures (CHE) can trigger illness-caused poverty and compound poverty-caused illness. Our study is the first regional comparative study to analyze CHE trends and health inequality in eastern, central and western China, exploring the differences and disparities across regions to make targeted health policy ...
Xinyue Wang +8 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2016 The social health insurance coverage is relatively high in Mongolia; however, escalation of out-of-pocket payments for health care, which reached 41 % of the total health expenditure in 2011, is a policy concern. The aim of this study is to analyse the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures and to measure the rate of impoverishment from health ...
Dorjdagva, J +4 more
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Determinants of Catastrophic Dental Health Expenditure in China [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2016 This study explored catastrophic health expenditure in China, due to out-of-pocket payments for dental care, and its associated individual- and contextual-level factors. We pooled data from 31,566 adults who participated in the third National Oral Health Survey with province-level data from different sources.
Sun, Xiangyu +4 more
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