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 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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Catastrophic Health Expenditures And Impoverishment In Kenya [PDF]
European Scientific Journal, ESJ, 2016 Background: Out-of-pocket health expenditures leave households exposed to the risk of financial catastrophe and poverty whenever they entail significant dissaving or the sale of key household assets. Even relatively small expenditures on health can be financially disastrous for poor households and similarly, large health care expenditures can lead to ...
Diana N. Kimani +2 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditures With Pregnancy and Delivery in the United States. [PDF]
Obstet Gynecol, 2022 OBJECTIVE: To describe prevalence, trends, and risk factors for catastrophic health expenditures in the year of delivery among birth parents (delivering people). METHODS: We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from 2008–2016.
Peterson JA +3 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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Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam [PDF]
, 2009 Aims: This study has three aims: 1) to measure the impact of the Vietnamese Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) programme on out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of health care after correcting for care-seeking and insurance-seeking self-selection biases; 2) to ...
Ali, Shehzad Inayat
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Catastrophic health expenditures, insurance churn, and nonemployment among gynecologic cancer patients in the United States. [PDF]
Am J Obstet Gynecol, 2022 Albright BB +6 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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The Comparison of Various Types of Health Insurance in the Healthcare Utilization, Costs and Catastrophic Health Expenditures among Middle-Aged and Older Chinese Adults. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Chen S +5 more
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