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Catastrophic health expenditure [PDF]
The Lancet, 2003 Sir—Ke Xu and colleagues’ article1 raises important questions about health expenditure and the financial security of households, an issue that has, as noted by the authors, “long been ignored on the health policy agenda”. Xu and co-workers’ study adds to the evidence on the effect of health systems on households, and the time has come to put this and ...
Wim Van Damme +3 more
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Vikalpa, 2022 Scholars in health economics have been studying the relationship between healthcare expenditure and health outcomes for the last half-century. Researchers emphasized the increase of public health expenditure towards providing primary healthcare based on ...
Subhalaxmi Mohapatra
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Estimating health expenditure shares from household surveys
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2013 OBJECTIVE: To quantify the effects of household expenditure survey characteristics on the estimated share of a household's expenditure devoted to health.
Rouselle F Lavado +2 more
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Health expenditure and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa: an empirical investigation
Development Studies Research, 2021 In this study, the causal relationship between health expenditure and economic growth is examined using panel data from sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2008–2017.
Nicholas M. Odhiambo
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A time series analysis of government expenditure and health outcomes in Nigeria
Journal of Public Health in Africa, 2023 Background: Despite a significant share of Nigeria’s budget in the health sector, the health status has not improved, as reflected by poor health indicators.
Bosede O. Awoyemi +3 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023 Background An increase in healthcare utilization in response to universal health coverage may leave massive economic burden on individuals and households. Identifying catastrophic health expenditure helps us understand such burden.
Xi Li +4 more
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Does the leading pharmaceutical reform in China really solve the issue of overly expensive healthcare services? Evidence from an empirical study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Healthcare system reform of Sanming city has become a leading healthcare reform model in China. It has developed a rigorous pharmaceutical reform consisted of the Zero Mark-up Drug Policy and the Centralized Procurement of Medicine Policy to bring down ...
Yunzhen He +6 more
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Health care expenditure and health outcome nexus: new evidence from the SAARC-ASEAN region
Globalization and Health, 2018 Background The total health expenditure (as a percentage of GDP) and health outcomes in the region of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are lower than that of the OECD region and
Mohammad Mafizur Rahman +2 more
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Determinants of China’s health expenditure growth: based on Baumol’s cost disease theory
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Background During the past four decades, China’s total health expenditure and health expenditure per capita have both experienced a dramatic increase in growth rate.
Linan Wang, Yuqian Chen
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Business: Theory and Practice, 2017 The aim of this study is to analyze the healthcare expenditures in seven South Asian countries namely, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The longitudinal data has been taken for 19 years from 1995 to 2013.
Imlak Shaikh Shaikh, Shabda Singh
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