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BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background China expanded health coverage to residents in informal economic sectors by the rural new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) for rural population and urban resident basic medical insurance scheme (URBMI) for non-working urban residents ...
Zhen-Yu Shi +4 more
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Health Systems & Reform, 2022 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a widespread policy goal in the 21st century. The aim is to protect people from financial risk while promoting their access to good-quality care.
Jui-fen Rachel Lu +2 more
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Impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in India
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Background: Out of the 1.324 billion people in India (2016), around 12.4% of the population is below the poverty line. In India, out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOP) expenses account for about 62.6% of total health expenditure – one of the highest in ...
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
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Health systems and reform, 2022 Kenya has implemented several health purchasing reforms to facilitate progress toward universal health coverage. We conducted a narrative review of peer-reviewed and grey literature to examine how these reforms have affected health system outcomes in ...
E. Kabia, Jacob S Kazungu, E. Barasa
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Spatial disparities in impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket health payments in Malawi
Global Health Action, 2022 Background Out-of-pocket health payments as a means of financing health services are a cause of concern among households in low and middle-income countries.
Atupele N. Mulaga +2 more
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Lessons for Developing Countries From Outlier Country Health Systems
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Building good health systems is an important objective for policy makers in any country. Developing countries which are just starting out on their journeys need to do this by using their limited resources in the best way possible.
Nachiket Mor
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Background Elevated blood pressure or hypertension is responsible for around 10 million annual deaths globally, and people residing in low and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by it.
Sandipta Chakraborty +5 more
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Health Science Reports, 2023 Background and Aims One of the goals of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to reduce the prevalence of catastrophic health expenditures among Iranian households to 1% by the end of the sixth 5‐year development plan (2016−2021).
Azad Shokri +4 more
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Archives of Public Health, 2022 Background Despite global guidance for maintaining essential non-Covid health services during the pandemic, there is a concern that existing services faced a major disruption.
Samir Garg +2 more
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National Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 Background: India reports the highest number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) in India. Patients with TB employ negative financial coping mechanisms (dissaving) to make up for the costs of care.
Mihir Rupani, Sheetal Vyas
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