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Healthcare utilization and expenditures for chronic and acute conditions in Georgia: does benefit package design matter? [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: In 2007 the Georgian government introduced a full state-subsidized Medical Insurance Program for the Poor (MIP) to provide better financial protection and improved access for socially and financially disadvantaged citizens. Studies evaluating
Akaki Zoidze, Natia Shengelia, Gotsadze, George, Shengelia, Natia, George Gotsadze, Adrianna Murphy, Murphy, Adrianna, Zoidze, Akaki   +7 more
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Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure. [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: More than 72% of health expenditure in India is financed by individual households at the time of illness through out-of-pocket payments. This is a highly regressive way of financing health care and sometimes leads to impoverishment.
Ranson, Kent, Van Damme, Wim, Van der Stuyft, P., Ranson, K., Criel, Bart, Devadasan Narayanan, Van der Stuyft Patrick, Van Damme, W., Narayanan Devadasan, Van Damme Wim, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, Devadasan, N., Devadasan, Narayanan, Criel Bart, Wim Van Damme, Bart Criel, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Kent Ranson, Criel, B., Ranson Kent   +19 more
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The Risk and Duration of Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures [PDF]

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1994
The authors measure the time-series property of catastrophic medical costs facing the elderly using information on medical deductions from a panel of tax returns. During the period of analysis, 1968-73, taxpayers could deduct medical expenses above 3 percent of income.
Daniel Feenberg, Jonathan Skinner
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The financial burden of morbidity in HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Côte d'Ivoire. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Large HIV care programs frequently subsidize antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and CD4 tests, but patients must often pay for other health-related drugs and services.
Arnousse Beaulière, Siaka Touré, Pierre-Kébreau Alexandre, Koko Koné, Alex Pouhé, Bertin Kouadio, Neige Journy, Jérôme Son, Virginie Ettiègne-Traoré, François Dabis, Serge Eholié, Xavier Anglaret   +11 more
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Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Out of pocket (OOP) health spending can potentially expose households to risk of incurring large medical bills, and this may impact on their welfare. This work investigates the effect of catastrophic OOP on the incidence and depth of poverty in Malawi.The paper is based on data that was collected from 12,271 households that were interviewed during the ...
Martina Mchenga, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa, Levison S. Chiwaula   +2 more
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Constraints to universal coverage: inequities in health service use and expenditures for different health conditions and providers. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: There is need for new information about the socio-economic and geographic differences in health seeking and expenditures on many health conditions, so to help to design interventions that will reduce inequity in utilisation of healthcare ...
Hanson, Kara, Benjamin Uzochukwu, Onwujekwe, Obinna, Kara Hanson, Onoka, Chima, Chima Onoka, Uzochukwu, Benjamin, Onoka Chima, Hanson Kara, Onwujekwe Obinna, Obinna Onwujekwe, Uzochukwu Benjamin   +11 more
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Socioeconomic inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in Brazil [PDF]

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2014
OBJECTIVE To analyze the evolution of catastrophic health expenditure and the inequalities in such expenses, according to the socioeconomic characteristics of Brazilian families.METHODS Data from the National Household Budget 2002-2003 (48,470 households) and 2008-2009 (55,970 households) were analyzed.
Boing, Alexandra Crispim, Bertoldi, Andrea Damaso, Dornellas de Barros, Aluisio Jardim, Posenato, Leila Garcia, Peres, Karen Glazer   +4 more
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Out-of-pocket payments and catastrophic expenditures due to traffic injuries in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Health Economics Review, 2021
Objective To estimate the out-of-pocket expenditures linked to Road Traffic Injuries in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as well as the prevalence of catastrophic expenditures among those out-of-pocket payments, and to identify the socio-economic determinants ...
Laurène Petitfour, Emmanuel Bonnet, Isadora Mathevet, Aude Nikiema, Valéry Ridde   +4 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty in Pakistan

The Pakistan Development Review, 2021
The current study has estimated the incidences, intensity and impacts of catastrophic health expenditures for Pakistan. For the analysis, two thresholds are used to define catastrophic health payments (1) if health expenditures are 10 percent or above of household consumption, and (2) if they are 40 percent or above of household
Shujaat Farooq, Faham Masud
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Equitable realization of the right to health in Haiti: how household data inform health seeking behavior and financial risk protection

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background Though the right to health is included in Haiti’s constitution, little progress has been made to expand universal health coverage nationwide, a strategy to ensure access to health services for all, while preventing financial hardship among the
Marion Cros, Eleonora Cavagnero, Jean Patrick Alfred, Mirja Sjoblom, Nicolas Collin, Tania Mathurin   +5 more
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