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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 +3 more
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The Impact of the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on Activities and Financing of Township Hospitals in Weifang, China [PDF]
Since 2003, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme is gradually implemented in China, in order first, to increase access of the poor to health services, reduce out-of-pocket expenditures and avoid catastrophic health expenditures and second to re ...
Anning Ma +5 more
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Catastrophic pharmaceutical expenditure in patients with type 2 diabetes in Iran
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Objectives This study aimed to assess the financial burden of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments to purchase antidiabetic medicines for type 2 patients in Iran. Method The “budget share” and “capacity to pay” approaches were employed to assess the catastrophic
Leila Zarei +6 more
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Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023 Introduction: Achieving universal health coverage, also known as UHC, has emerged as an essential global health policy, especially in addressing the burden of spending on major (catastrophic) diseases.
Yeni Riza +6 more
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The financial protection impact of the public health system and private insurance in Brazil [PDF]
, 2008 Includes bibliographyThis research assesses the effectiveness of the Brazilian public healthsystem and of private insurance in Brazil in providing financial protectionin health care.
Bós, Antonio M., Waters, Hugh R.
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Can insurance reduce catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure? [PDF]
, 2008 In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into poverty ...
Rama Joglekar
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Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Protection against financial risks is one of the important goals of the health system. The present study aims to determine the rate of exposure to catastrophic expenditures in the insured inpatients.
Manal Etemadi +4 more
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Analyzing the effects of insuring health risks : on the trade-off between short run insurance benefits vs. long run incentive costs [PDF]
, 2012 This paper constructs a dynamic model of health insurance to evaluate the short- and long run effects of policies that prevent firms from conditioning wages on health conditions of their workers, and that prevent health insurance companies from charging ...
Cole, Harold Linh +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Approximately 150 million people suffer from financial catastrophe annually because of out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPEs) on health. Although the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) of Ghana was designed to promote universal health ...
Juliet Okoroh +6 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2019 Introduction Insufficient or no health insurance creates financial access barriers to healthcare services, especially for vulnerable populations. The Green Card scheme, a non-contributory government-funded health insurance scheme for the poor in Turkey ...
Rifat Atun +2 more
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