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Catastrophic Health Expenditure After the Implementation of Health Sector Evolution Plan: A Case Study in the West of Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2016 Background: One of the main objectives of health systems is the financial protection against out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures. OOP health expenditures can lead to catastrophic payments, impoverishment or poverty among households. In Iran, health
Bakhtiar Piroozi +4 more
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Universal coverage but unequal access? Factors affecting the use of health services in Northeast & South Thailand. [PDF]
, 2008 Thailand’s rapid economic growth has brought health challenges as well as benefits, namely a rise in life expectancy to 6.5 years above the global average, and an ‘epidemiological transition’ from infectious and deficiency diseases, to chronic non ...
Camfield, Laura
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Out-of-pocket spending and financial burden among low income adults after Medicaid expansions in the United States: quasi-experimental difference-in-difference study. [PDF]
, 2020 OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act and changes in healthcare spending among low income adults during the first four years of the policy implementation (2014-17).
Gotanda, Hiroshi +3 more
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Sufficiency, Comprehensiveness of Health Care Coverage, and Cost-Sharing Arrangements in the Realpolitik of Health Policy [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter explores two questions in detail: How should we determine the threshold for costs that individuals are asked to bear through insurance premiums or care-related out-of-pocket costs, including user fees and copayments?
Persad, Govind, Schmidt, Harald
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BMC Health Services ResearchIntroduction Out-of-pocket health expenditures pose a substantial financial burden for millions of people worldwide. Diabetes patients without financial protection often face catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure. However, the catastrophic out-of-
Kibret Mesgie +5 more
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Prevalence and Determinants of Catastrophic Healthcare Expenditures in Iran From 2013 to 2019 [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public HealthObjectives: Protecting people against financial hardship caused by illness stands as a fundamental obligation within healthcare systems and constitutes a pivotal component in achieving universal health coverage. The objective of this study was to analyze
Abdoreza mousavi +4 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditures And Impoverishment In Kenya
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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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2022 Citizens of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic have difficulties in obtaining proper health services compared to more developed countries, due to the lack of available health facilities and health financing programmes.
Somdeth Bodhisane +1 more
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Strategies in Underwriting the Costs of Catastrophic Disease [PDF]
, 1976 In this thesis we address the problem of integrated software pipelining for clustered VLIW architectures. The phases that are integrated and solved as one combined problem are: cluster assignment, instruction selection, scheduling, register allocation ...
Havighurst, Clark C. +2 more
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بیمارستان, 2013 Background: Achieving equitable financial contribution and removing the risk of householdschr('39') exposure to catastrophic expenditures are the most important challenges for health systems all over the world.
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