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Out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care: a population-based study in low-income urban Medellin, Colombia

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Hypertension requires life-long medical care, which may cause economic burden and even lead to catastrophic health expenditure. Objective To estimate the extent of out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care at a population level and its ...
Esteban Londoño Agudelo, Anaí García Fariñas, Viviana Pérez Ospina, Cecilia Taborda Pérez, Tatiana Villacrés Landeta, Tullia Battaglioli, Rubén Gómez Arias, Patrick Van der Stuyft   +7 more
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Validity of a Wearable Digital Insole for Assessing Gait ON and OFF in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Gait impairment is a distinctive symptom of Parkinson's disease that negatively impact mobility. We assessed the validity of wearable digital insoles against a validated reference gait analysis system for measuring select gait characteristics in patients with Parkinson's disease. Methods A comparative analysis between digital insoles
Deborah A. Hall, Kimberly Kwei, Rolando J. Acosta, Bharatkumar Koyani, Erin Robertson, Pratyush Rai, Roland Barge, Emily Timm, Nicollette L. Purcell, Natasha Desai, Dhanesh Patel, Ana‐Maria Visoiu‐Knapp, Samuel Stuart, Rinol Alaj, Matthew F. Wipperman, Oren Levy, Joan A. O'Keefe   +16 more
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Understanding the heterogeneity in healthcare expenditure in India

BMC Medical Research Methodology
Health expenditure is indicative of the financial burden of health care and serves as a yardstick of health system performance. However, health expenditure may be shaped by multiple factors such as prevalence of morbidity, income inequality and above all,
Srikanth Reddy Umenthala, Udaya Shankar Mishra, K.S. James   +2 more
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Health Care–Related Savings Accounts, Health Care Expenditures, and Tax Expenditures

JAMA Health Forum
ImportanceApproximately 30% of US families with employer-sponsored health insurance, disproportionately drawn from high-income groups, benefit from flexible spending accounts (FSAs) or health savings accounts (HSAs). The combined association through both out-of-pocket spending and premiums of these tax-favored accounts with health care expenditures and
Ding, Dong, Glied, Sherry
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Retirement Age and Health Expenditures [PDF]

Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2006
Cet article étudie la structure optimale des cotisations et prestations de retraite lorsque l’état de santé des individus détermine l’âge de cessation d’activité et dépend de la consommation de soins de santé. Nous montrons que l’optimum de second rang est caractérisé par une retraite précoce et une subvention sur les dépenses de santé.
Cremer, Helmuth, Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie, Pestieau, Pierre   +2 more
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Financial Distress and Its Determinants in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To quantify the degree of financial distress and identify its determinants in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given the frequent prolonged use of expensive disease‐modifying therapies. Methods We identified adults enrolled in the FORWARD databank with either RA or noninflammatory musculoskeletal disease (NIMSKD) completing the ...
Amber Brown Keebler, Yunju Im, Sofia Pedro, Ted R. Mikuls, Edward S. Peters, Kaleb Michaud   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Air Pollution on Healthcare Expenditure for Respiratory Diseases: Evidence from the People’s Republic of  China

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2020
Lele Li,1,* Tiantian Du,2,* Chi Zhang3 1School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China; 2Institute for Hospital Management, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, People’s Republic of ...
Li L, Du T, Zhang C
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Direction of uneven health-care expenditure: Evidence from Northeast India

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2017
Background: Although the need for ensuring universal coverage in health has received the attention of policymakers under the Millennium Development Goals program, the skewed pattern of health-care expenditure has been increased globally.
Tiken Das, Pradyut Guha
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing cost-sharing practices for pharmaceuticals and health care services among four central European countries [PDF]

, 2012
The paper reviews the existing cost-sharing practices in four Central European countries namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia focusing on patient co-payments for pharmaceuticals and services covered by the social health insurance.
Baji, Petra, Boncz, Imre, Gulácsi, László, Jenei, György   +3 more
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Sex Differences in Medication Discontinuation in Axial Spondyloarthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We examined sex differences in medication discontinuation among patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) initiating tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi), interleukin‐17 inhibitors (IL‐17i), or JAK inhibitors (JAKi). Methods Using data from the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Registry (2003–2025), we assessed ...
Rachael Stovall, Cinthia Blat, Eric Roberts, Jean W. Liew, Katherine Wysham, Namrata Singh, Janna Friedly, Lianne S. Gensler, Gabriela Schmajuk, Jinoos Yazdany   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source