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The Government of DKI Jakarta plans to free the city from slum dwellings by 2020. In the quest to mitigate floods from Jakarta, the government relocated about 25,533 people; 5,725 households and 5,379 business units from 12 slum areas between 2014 and ...
Puput Ichwatus Sholihah, Chen Shaojun
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Financial impact of non-communicable diseases on households with older adults in india: a mixed methods study [PDF]
Background In India healthcare expenses push > 55 million households into poverty annually. Costs for treating non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are major source of this impoverishment.
Abraham Prince D E, Prakash Babu Kodali
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Catastrophic health expenditure and household impoverishment in Togo
Background: The main way of financing healthcare in low-income countries continues to be out-of-pocket payments. Despite the efforts of national authorities and international partners to protect households from impoverishment arising from seeking ...
Yacobou SANOUSSI, Alexandre Zounmenou
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Improving Insurance Protection for Rare Diseases: Economic Burden and Policy Effects — Simulation of People With Pompe Disease in China [PDF]
Background The economic burden of Pompe disease (PD) is under-researched. This study aimed to fill this gap and provide evidence-based suggestions for policy improvement based on policy simulation.Methods Data were derived from a nationally based cross-
Shanquan Chen, Dong Dong
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Objective. To estimate the magnitude of out-of-pocket (OOP) and catastrophic health expenses as well as impoverishment experienced by households of schizophrenia patients lacking social security coverage. Materials and methods.
Hortensia Reyes-Morales +3 more
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Study of patterns and drives of utilization and Out-of-pocket Health Expenditure in selected groups in Cairo-Egypt [PDF]
Background: Despite wide coverage of low-cost public health services, Egyptians seem to have different preferences and perceptions regarding the variant health care providers in the country.
Mohamed H Shehata +2 more
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Income possibilities and constraints and health status of society
Introduction and Objective The scope of problems concerning income possibilities and constraints in the image of the state of health of society is important and interesting from the social, economic, legal, health, and psychological perspectives ...
Marta Ewa Czekirda, Mirosław Jarosz
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Are Dolphins Kept in Impoverished Environments?
Numerous studies have demonstrated the negative effects of impoverished environments versus the positive effects of enriched environments on animals’ cognitive and neural functioning.
Kelly Jaakkola
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Evictions, Foreclosures, and Global Housing Speculation in Palma, Spain
Over the last two decades, the property bubble and the subsequent economic crisis and post-crisis policies have heightened urban inequalities, mainly in cities in southern Europe. The gaps between social classes have widened with the configuration of new
Jesús M. González-Pérez
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Financial toxicity of cancer treatment in India: towards closing the cancer care gap
BackgroundThe rising economic burden of cancer on patients is an important determinant of access to treatment initiation and adherence in India. Several publicly financed health insurance (PFHI) schemes have been launched in India, with treatment for ...
Shankar Prinja +13 more
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