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The Cost of Catastrophic Illness

Health Care Management Review, 1978
Birnbaum, Howard
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Treatment Decision Making in Catastrophic Illness [PDF]

Medical Care, 1977
Through conceptual discussion and consideration of a case study, this paper examines how physicians respond to the availability of an innovative treatment of a serious illness. It is argued that the unusual economic environment of the delivery of catastrophic illness care works with the "social contract" in medicine to encourage the use of innovative ...
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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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Does Major Illness Cause Financial Catastrophe? [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2010
Objective. We examine the financial impact of major illnesses on the near‐elderly and how this impact is affected by health insurance.Data Sources. We use RAND Corporation extracts from the Health and Retirement Study from 1992 to 2006.1Study Design.
Keziah, Cook, David, Dranove, Andrew, Sfekas   +2 more
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Disease-specific out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in urban Bangladesh: A Bayesian analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Because of the rapid increase of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and high burden of healthcare-related financial issues in Bangladesh, there is a concern that out-of-pocket (OOP) payments related to illnesses may become a major burden on ...
Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Cherri Zhang, Khin Thet Swe, Md Shafiur Rahman, Md Rashedul Islam, Md Kamrujjaman, Papia Sultana, Md Zakiul Hassan, Md Shahinul Alam, Md Mizanur Rahman   +9 more
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A unity of opposites: A prototypical case for the importance of primary-care providers in addressing mental health issues

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Primary-care providers are most often the first point of contact for patients presenting with mental illness. Highly stigmatized and with a litany of other medical issues requiring redress by providers, it may receive inadequate attention, despite its ...
Kevin M Lamm, Cooper L Stone, Genevieve Rebon   +2 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure and rural household impoverishment in China: what role does the new cooperative health insurance scheme play?

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectiveTo determine whether the New Cooperative Medical Insurance Scheme (NCMS) is associated with decreased levels of catastrophic health expenditure and reduced impoverishment due to medical expenses in rural households of China.MethodsAn analysis of
Ye Li, Qunhong Wu, Chaojie Liu, Zheng Kang, Xin Xie, Hui Yin, Mingli Jiao, Guoxiang Liu, Yanhua Hao, Ning Ning   +9 more
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Pontine Infarct as Initial Presentation of Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome in Systemic Lupus Erythematous

Acta Medica Indonesiana, 2022
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APLS) is an autoimmune condition which commonly manifests as an arterial or venous thrombosis affecting medium to large vessels, with the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies.
Rathika Rajah, Rizna A Cader
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Prevalence and Mortality-Related Factors of Multiple Myeloma in Taiwan.

PLoS ONE, 2016
In this retrospective cohort study based in Taiwan, we reported the current epidemiology of patients with multiple myeloma and analyzed the factors affecting mortality.
Jia-Hong Chen, Chi-Hsiang Chung, Yung-Chih Wang, Shun-Neng Hsu, Wen-Yen Huang, Wu-Chien Chien   +5 more
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Financial burden of prostate cancer in the Iranian population: a cost of illness and financial risk protection analysis

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2023
Background Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in males worldwide and the third most common among Iran’s male population. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding its direct and indirect costs in low and middle-income countries.
Farbod Alinezhad, Farhad Khalili, Hossein Zare, Chunling Lu, Zahra Mahmoudi, Mahmood Yousefi   +5 more
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