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Effects of cancer treatment on household impoverishment: a multicentre cross-sectional study in China

BMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To determine the incidence and intensity of household impoverishment induced by cancer treatment in China.Design Average income and daily consumption per capita of the households and out-of-pocket payments for cancer care were estimated ...
Chaojie Liu, Xin Zhang, Wenqi Fu, Guoxiang Liu, Min Zhao, Jie He, Hong Wang, DeBin Wang, Ni Li, Jufang Shi, Chengcheng Liu, Min Dai, Li Yang, Wanqing Chen, Yongzhen Zhang, Chengyao Sun, Yupeng Du, Li Lan, Burenbatu Bao, Sumei Cao   +19 more
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Addressing data and methodological limitations in estimating catastrophic health spending and impoverishment in India, 2004–18

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021
Background Estimates of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) are counterintuitive to researchers, policy makers, and developmental partners due to data and methodological limitation.
Sanjay K. Mohanty, Laxmi Kant Dwivedi
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The impact of urban–rural medical insurance integration on medical impoverishment: evidence from China

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2023
Background Financial protection is a key dimension of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and social medical insurance is an effective measure to provide financial protection.
Jinkang Huo, Mingzheng Hu, Shaojie Li
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Impoverishment of induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) slum eviction development in Jakarta Indonesia

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2018
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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Assessing medical impoverishment and associated factors in health care in Ethiopia

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background About 5% of the global population, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries, is forced into poverty because of out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending.
Amarech G. Obse, John E. Ataguba
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Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment in tropical deltas: evidence from the Mekong Delta region

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2018
Background Universal health coverage implies that people obtain the health services they need without experiencing financial hardship. While the factors contributing to catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among households are well understood, few ...
Sayem Ahmed, Sylvia Szabo, Kristine Nilsen   +2 more
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Lean Start-Up in Settings of Impoverishment: The Implications of the Context for Theory

Journal of Management, 2023
We examine the application of “lean start-up” in impoverished non-Western contexts. Specifically, we focus on settings of impoverishment in which individuals earn less than $3.65 per day.
G. Bruton, Christopher G. Pryor, Jose A. Cerecedo Lopez   +2 more
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Assessing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments and their determinants in Bangladesh: evidence from the nationwide Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016

International Health, 2021
Background Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare have been increasing steadily in Bangladesh, which deteriorates the financial risk protection of many households. Methods We aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE)
Sayem Ahmed, M. Ahmed, M. Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Z. Islam, C. Rehnberg, L. Niessen, Jahangir A. M. Khan   +7 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure and household impoverishment in Togo

Journal of Public Health Research, 2023
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 Yedjannavo Zounmenou, Muriel Ametoglo   +2 more
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Comparative Analysis on Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases on Catastrophic Spending and Impoverishment in Tanzania

Global Social Welfare, 2022
The question of whether communicable or non-communicable diseases have higher economic effects on households is rarely explored from the global to local level despite of their significant contribution in increasing household catastrophic spending and ...
F. Kitole, R. Lihawa, Eliaza J. Mkuna
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