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Catastrophic health care expenditure and impoverishment in Bhutan
Health Policy and Planning, 2022 Monitoring financial hardship due to out-of-pocket spending on health care is a critical determinant of progress towards universal health coverage. This study investigates the occurrence, intensity and determinants of catastrophic health expenditure and ...
Jayendra Sharma, M. Pavlova, W. Groot
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Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2022 Background Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment are the outcomes of poor financing mechanisms. Little is known about the prevalence and predictors of these outcomes among non-communicable disease patients in private and public health ...
T. Ipinnimo, K. Durowade
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Background Utilizing surgical services, including caesarean sections, can result in catastrophic expenditure and impoverishment. In 2010, Sierra Leone introduced the Free Health Care Initiative (FHCI), a national financial risk protection program for the
A. V. van Duinen +9 more
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021 Background: South Korea has the highest out-of-pocket burden for medical expenses among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries and has no formal sickness benefit system, along with United States and Switzerland,
Chang-O Kim
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Mathematics, 2021 Observational errors of Particle Filtering are studied over the case of a state-space model with a linear observation equation. In this study, the observational errors are estimated prior to the upcoming observations.
Rodi Lykou, George Tsaklidis
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Social Sciences, 2023 The widespread development of hydropower dams has led to involuntary displacement, which has become a significant global issue. In Vietnam, around 70,000 households were displaced in 2020, causing uncertainty and social disruption.
Pham Huu Ty +3 more
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Sufficiency, Comprehensiveness of Health Care Coverage, and Cost-Sharing Arrangements in the Realpolitik of Health Policy [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter explores two questions in detail: How should we determine the threshold for costs that individuals are asked to bear through insurance premiums or care-related out-of-pocket costs, including user fees and copayments?
Persad, Govind, Schmidt, Harald
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Radical Scepticism and the Epistemology of Confusion [PDF]
, 2019 The lack of knowledge—as Timothy Williamson (2000) famously maintains—is ignorance. Radical sceptical arguments, at least in the tradition of Descartes, threaten universal ignorance.
Carter, J. Adam
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Speaking to twin children: evidence against the "impoverishment" thesis [PDF]
, 2015 It is often claimed that parents’ talk to twins is less rich than talk to singletons and that this delays their language development. This case study suggests that talk to twins need not be impoverished.
Bramley, Nicolette +2 more
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