Effects of healthcare financing policy tools on health system efficiency: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Background: Evidence shows high levels of catastrophic and impoverishing healthcare expenditure among households in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The way healthcare is financed has an impact on how well a health system performs its functions and achieves its
Kwadwo Arhin +2 more
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Intellectual and developmental disability: Healthcare financing [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2014 The World Health Organization (WHO)estimates global spending on healthcareat $6.5 trillion, approximately 10.5% ofthe world’s gross domestic product. TheUnitedStates’(US)shareofthatspendingis$2.6 trillion, essentially quadrupling since1980. The 2010 United States Patient Pro-tection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),also known as Obamacare, has ...
Joav eMerrick +6 more
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Population ageing and sustainability of healthcare financing in China [PDF]
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2023 Background In China, the healthcare financing structure involves multiple parties, including the government, society and individuals. Medicare Fund is an important way for the Government and society to reduce the burden of individual medical costs ...
Wenqing Wu +4 more
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The role of government healthcare financing in carbon emissions and climate change
Sustainable Environment, 2023 Government financing among OPEC+ countries predominantly stems from oil investments. However, given the global prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases, aging, population growth, and pandemic mutations, these countries require more oil ...
Salem Al Mustanyir
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Contributions and challenges of healthcare financing towards universal health coverage in Ethiopia: a narrative evidence synthesis [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2022 Background High burden of healthcare expenditure precludes the poor from access to quality healthcare services. In Ethiopia, a significant proportion of the population has faced financial catastrophe associated with the costs of healthcare services.
Ayal Debie +2 more
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Analysis on the equity differential on household healthcare financing in developing countries: empirical evidence from Tanzania, East Africa [PDF]
Health Economics Review, 2022 Background Achieving equity in healthcare services has been a global priority. According to the literature, a slew of initiatives aimed at increasing household equity in healthcare financing have exacerbated the problem, making it hard for most ...
Felician Andrew Kitole +2 more
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Healthcare financing in Egypt: a systematic literature review. [PDF]
Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association, 2022 Background The Egyptian healthcare system has multiple stakeholders, including a wide range of public and private healthcare providers and several financing agents.
Ahmad Fasseeh +7 more
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Assessment of equity in healthcare financing and benefits distribution in Tanzania: a cross-sectional study protocol [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Introduction Achieving universal health coverage goal by ensuring access to quality health service without financial hardship is a policy target in many countries.
Peter Binyaruka +4 more
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Ten years of progress towards universal health coverage: has China achieved equitable healthcare financing? [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2020 Introduction This study aims to systematically evaluate vertical and horizontal equity in the Chinese healthcare financing system over the period 2008–2018 during the progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and to examine how both types of ...
Guoliang Zhou
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Financing Healthcare in Indonesia
Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2016 Introduction: There have been two major transitions for healthcare in Indonesia: the implementation of government decentralisation and universal health insurance.
Suryanto Suryanto +2 more
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