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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Food Insecurity, Healthcare Utilization, and Healthcare Expenditures: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

International Journal of Public Health, 2023
Objective: This study examines the longitudinal association between household food insecurity and healthcare utilization and expenditure.Methods: A multi-wave longitudinal cohort study was conducted using the 2008–2019 and 2021 waves of the Korean Welfare Panel Study.
Hwi Choe, Tae-Young Pak
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Healthcare expenditure of multiple sclerosis patients in 2013: A nationwide study based on French health administrative databases

Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 2017
Background Little is known about expenditure items of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients over recent years in France. Objective To describe healthcare expenditure among MS patients and identify the main expenditure drivers.
Delphine Lefeuvre, Jérémie Rudant, Stéphanie Foulon, François Alla, Alain Weill   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Challenge of Additionality: The Impact of Central Grants for Primary Healthcare on State-Level Spending on Primary Healthcare in India [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019
Background In planning for universal health coverage, many countries have been examining their fiscal decentralization policies with the goal of increasing efficiency and equity via “additionalities.” The concept of “additionality,” when the government ...
Diana M. Bowser, Rajesh Jha, Manjiri Bhawalkar, Peter Berman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Empirical Assessment of Public Healthcare Expenditure in the North-East India: A Panel Data Study

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2023
Background: Healthcare expenditure plays a crucial role in determining the quality and accessibility of healthcare services within a country. The Indian government has made efforts to improve healthcare infrastructure and services for which, they need ...
Banalata Saikia, Manuj Baruah, Nilutpal Neog   +2 more
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Health-care utilization and expenditure patterns in the rural areas of Punjab, India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2018
Objective: To determine pattern of health care utilization and extent of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in rural areas of Punjab in India. Methods: Using multi stage sampling procedure, 660 participants were selected from 110 villages, out of all ...
Tarundeep Singh, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Gopal Singh, Manmeet Kaur, Sukhvinder Kaur, Preeti Thaware, Rajesh Kumar   +6 more
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Infection Control Practices for Vascular Access Management in Hemodialysis: Results From a Nationwide Survey of Japanese National University Hospitals

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada, Makoto Harada, Tadahiko Kikugawa, Takeshi Nakata, Koji Hashimoto, Tsuneo Konta, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the examination of out-of-pocket health expenditures in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal

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
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting pharmaceutical expenditure in Europe : adjusting for the impact of rebates and discounts [PDF]

, 2017
European healthcare systems are under constant pressure to contain healthcare expenditure. Understanding future drug expenditure is an important consideration for payers when formulating policies.
Anderson, P., Espin, J., Flostrand, S., Godman, B., Hutchings, A., Mestre-Ferrandiz, J., Parnaby, A., Schlander, M.   +7 more
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