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Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria
Health Economics Review, 2022 Background The Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since it’s became operational in 2005. However, many Nigerians still pay out of pocket for medical expenses, and this drive them to incurring ...
Henry C. Edeh
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Do economic crises lead to health and nutrition behavior responses?: analysis using longitudinal data from Russia [PDF]
, 2013 Using longitudinal data on more than 2,000 Russian families spanning the period between 2007 and 2010, this paper estimates the impact of the 2009 global financial crisis on food expenditures, health care expenditures, and doctor visits in Russia.
Ajwad, Mohamed Ihsan +2 more
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Workplace wellness program and short-term changes in health care expenditures
Preventive Medicine Reports, 2019 Workplace wellness programs are commonly offered by employers with the expectation that they will reduce health care costs. We previously reported that Be Fit, a 10-week wellness program offered to employees of a large teaching hospital and geared ...
Douglas E. Levy, Anne N. Thorndike
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2020 Introduction: Institutional delivery in Nepal is increasing in the past decades and has been the priority program of the government of Nepal. However, due to the hidden costs related to institutional deliveries, the financial burden remains unacceptably ...
Puja Gartaula +3 more
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Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2020 Background: The rate of substitution for private and public health expenditures is one of the factors that can explain the different effects of public and private health expenditures on health and life expectancy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was
mahdi shahraki, simin ghaderi
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Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Environmental pollution seriously damages not only the ecosystem but also the well-being of residents. There is an association between air pollution and residential health expenditures.
Yuhui DAI +3 more
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Body mass index and health care utilization in diabetic and nondiabetic individuals. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundAlthough controversial, most studies examining the relationship of body mass index (BMI) with mortality in diabetes suggest a paradox: the lowest risk category is above normal weight, versus normal weight in nondiabetic persons.
Bertakis, Klea D +2 more
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Determinants of healthcare expenditures: evidence from Türkiye’s healthcare system
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundThe lack of a mandatory referral system for service demand in Türkiye’s health system and the belief that unnecessary health expenditures are increasing constitute the basis of this study.
Hülya Diğer +3 more
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Effect of the California tobacco control program on personal health care expenditures. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2008 Large state tobacco control programs have been shown to reduce smoking and would be expected to affect health care costs. We investigate the effect of California's large-scale tobacco control program on aggregate personal health care expenditures in the ...
James M Lightwood +2 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman +8 more
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