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Noncommunicable disease-attributable medical expenditures, household financial stress and impoverishment in Bangladesh

SSM: Population Health, 2018
Background: Treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low-income countries can entail large out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures, which can increase the likelihood of household impoverishment and perpetuate the poverty cycle. This paper studies
Biplab Kumar Datta, Muhammad Jami Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir Husain, Deliana Kostova   +3 more
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What fragile factors hinder the pace of China’s alleviation efforts of the poverty-stricken population? A study from the perspective of impoverishment caused by medical expenses

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Objective China has made remarkable achievements in poverty alleviation. However, with the change in economic development and age structure, the population stricken by poverty due to medical expenses and disability accounted for 42.3 and 14.4% of the ...
Jiahui Wang, Xinye Qi, Linghan Shan, Kexin Wang, Xiao Tan, Zheng Kang, Ning Ning, Libo Liang, Lijun Gao, Mingli Jiao, Yu Cui, Yanhua Hao, Qunhong Wu, Ye Li   +13 more
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Factors affecting catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses in China: policy implications of universal health insurance

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2012
OBJECTIVE: To assess the degree to which the Chinese people are protected from catastrophic household expenditure and impoverishment from medical expenses and to explore the health system and structural factors influencing the first of these outcomes ...
Ye Li, Qunhong Wu, Ling Xu, David Legge, Yanhua Hao, Lijun Gao, Ning Ning, Gang Wan   +7 more
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The Equity Impact Vaccines May Have On Averting Deaths And Medical Impoverishment In Developing Countries. [PDF]

Health Affairs, 2018
With social policies increasingly directed toward enhancing equity through health programs, it is important that methods for estimating the health and economic benefits of these programs by subpopulation be developed, to assess both equity concerns and ...
Brenzel, Logan, Bullock, Olivia, Chang, Angela Y, Clark, Andrew, Clark, Samantha, Constenla, Dagna, Garske, Tini, Jackson, Michael L, Jean, Kévin, Jit, Mark, Johnson, Hope, Jones, Edward O, Li, Xi, Perales, Nicole A, Riumallo-Herl, Carlos, Suraratdecha, Chutima, Verguet, Stéphane   +16 more
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Provincial variations in catastrophic health expenditure and medical impoverishment in China: a nationwide population-based study. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 2023
Financial protection, as a key dimension of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), has been under increasing attention in recent years. A series of studies have examined the nationwide extent of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and medical impoverishment (MI) in China.
Jia Y, Hu M, Fu H, Yip W.
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Helmet regulation in Vietnam: impact on health, equity and medical impoverishment. [PDF]

Inj Prev, 2016
Background Vietnam's 2007 comprehensive motorcycle helmet policy increased helmet use from about 30% of riders to about 93%. We aimed to simulate the effect that this legislation might have on: (a) road traffic deaths and non-fatal injuries, (b) individuals’ direct acute care injury treatment costs, (c) individuals’
Olson Z, Staples JA, Mock C, Nguyen NP, Bachani AM, Nugent R, Verguet S.   +6 more
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Assessing the burden of medical impoverishment by cause: a systematic breakdown by disease in Ethiopia. [PDF]

BMC Med, 2016
Out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenses often lead to catastrophic expenditure and impoverishment in low- and middle-income countries. Yet, there has been no systematic examination of which specific diseases and conditions (e.g., tuberculosis, cardiovascular disease) drive medical impoverishment, defined as OOP direct medical costs pushing households into
Verguet S, Memirie ST, Norheim OF.
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Effects of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme on reducing medical impoverishment in rural Yanbian: An alternative approach. [PDF]

BMC Health Serv Res, 2016
This study aimed to measure the poverty head count ratio and poverty gap of rural Yanbian in order to examine whether China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme has alleviated its medical impoverishment and to compare the results of this alternative approach with those of a World Bank approach.This cross-sectional study was based on a stratified ...
Sun M, Shen JJ, Li C, Cochran C, Wang Y, Chen F, Li P, Lu J, Chang F, Li X, Hao M.   +10 more
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Catastrophic and Socioeconomic Disparities Across Different Payment Schemes in Lung Cancer Treatment: A Cross-Sectional Single-Centre Analysis from Thailand

Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2023
Objective: To identify the magnitude of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and medical impoverishment across three payment schemes and compare the within-scheme financial disparity.
Sarayut L. Geater, Paramee Thongsuksai
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The hidden financial catastrophe of chronic kidney disease under universal coverage and Thai “Peritoneal Dialysis First Policy”

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
ObjectiveUniversal health coverage can decrease the magnitude of the individual patient's financial burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD), but the residual financial hardship from the patients' perspective has not been well-studied in low and middle ...
Pornpen Sangthawan, Pinkaew Klyprayong, Sarayut L. Geater, Pimwara Tanvejsilp, Sirirat Anutrakulchai, Sarinya Boongird, Pongsathorn Gojaseni, Charan Kuhiran, Pichet Lorvinitnun, Kajohnsak Noppakun, Watanyu Parapiboon, Supinda Sirilak, Pluemjit Tankee, Puntapong Taruangsri, Pasuree Sangsupawanich, Piyamitr Sritara, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk, Chagriya Kitiyakara   +18 more
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