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Disease-specific distress healthcare financing and catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure for hospitalization care in Bangladesh

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Background Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure is one of the most common payment strategies for hospitalization care in Bangladesh, and the share of OOP expenditure has been increasing at an alarming rate.
Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Anik Hasan, Rasedul Islam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Uncovering Inequities: The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Hospitalized Adolescents and Young Adults With Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common condition among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) and is the leading cause of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in this population. Growing evidence suggests that social determinants of health (SDOH) influence menstrual bleeding patterns, access to care, and treatment. However, no studies have
Maria Carter‐Febres, Cristina Tarango, Ashley Childress, Chunyan Liu, Evan Thomas, Jennifer Pomales, Eric S. Mullins   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health Care Financing Reform: Issues and Updates [PDF]

Generation of funds and its efficient utilization have remained as a challenge to health authorities. This issue presents the recent efforts on health care financing as well as the concerns regarding its coverage, efficiency and sustainability.
Health Policy Development Staff (DOH)
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Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto, Daniel da Costa Torres, Ian Setubal Reis Chaves, Jonas do Carmo Paschoalin, Braúlio Lima Nascimento, Luciana Dias Chiavegato   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurial Financing, Advice, and Agency Costs [PDF]

This paper studies the interplay between advice and agency costs in entrepreneurial financing. We show that advise may exacerbate agency problems, because the agent may use it at the investor's expense and thereby hurt investors.
Roland Strausz
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Financing essential HIV services: a new economic agenda. [PDF]

, 2013
Anna Vassall and colleagues discuss the need for, and challenges facing, innovative and sustainable financing of the HIV response.
Atun, Rifat, Mariana Siapka, Watts, Charlotte, Watts Charlotte, Terris-Prestholt, Fern, Remme Michelle, Rifat Atun, Heise Lori, Fern Terris-Prestholt, Lori Heise, Remme, Michelle, Vassall, Anna, Heise, Lori, Hallett, Timothy, Anna Vassall, Andy Haines, Timothy Hallett, Atun Rifat, Haines, Andy, Vickerman Peter, Siapka Mariana, Markus Haacker, Piot Peter, Vickerman, Peter, Peter Piot, Haacker, Markus, Siapka, Mariana, Piot, Peter, Peter Vickerman, Hallett Timothy, Terris-Prestholt Fern, Haacker Markus, Michelle Remme, Charlotte Watts, Vassall Anna, Haines Andy   +35 more
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Cross-Programmatic Efficiency: The System is Greater Than the Sum of Its Programs

Health Systems & Reform
Health programs play important roles in health systems, contributing to the development of best practices, guidelines, awareness, and advocacy for specific services, populations, or conditions.
Susan P. Sparkes, Alexandra J. Earle, Joseph Kutzin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Progress on catastrophic health spending in 133 countries: a retrospective observational study

The Lancet Global Health, 2018
Background: The goal of universal health coverage (UHC) requires inter alia that families who get needed health care do not suffer undue financial hardship as a result.
Adam Wagstaff, DPhil, Gabriela Flores, PhD, Justine Hsu, MSc, Marc-François Smitz, MSc, Kateryna Chepynoga, MA, Leander R Buisman, PhD, Kim van Wilgenburg, MSc, Patrick Eozenou, PhD   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financing Payouts

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2014
AbstractWe find that 43% of firms that make payouts also raise capital during the same year, resulting in 31% of aggregate payouts being externally financed, primarily with debt. Most financed payouts cannot be explained by payout smoothing in response to volatile earnings or investment (rather, they are the result of firms persistently setting payouts
Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely, Martin Schmalz   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source