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Can insurance reduce catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure? [PDF]
In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into poverty ...
Rama Joglekar
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Out-of-Pocket Household Expenditures on Medical Injections in Cambodia [PDF]
Background Cambodia has one of the highest rates of overall medical injection usage worldwide. Therapeutic injections, which are often unnecessary, contribute to the spread of blood-borne diseases.
Kulkarni, Vivek +4 more
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Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram and out of pocket expenditure
Manas Pratim Roy +2 more
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Advance directives completion and hospital out‐of‐pocket expenditures [PDF]
AbstractIntroductionHealth care costs remain high at the end of life. It is not known if there is a relationship between advance directive (AD) completion and hospital out‐of‐pocket costs. This analysis investigated whether AD completion was associated with lower hospital out‐of‐pocket costs at end of life.MethodsWe used Health and Retirement Study ...
Yujun Zhu, Susan Enguidanos
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Who Have a Higher Risk of Falling Into Catastrophic Health Expenditures?
Catastrophic health expenditure is one of the challenges Indonesia faces in achieving Universal Health Coverage. Aside from being a financial disaster, the incident caused by out-of-pocket health expenditure exceeding a fixed limit can drive people into ...
Amalia Noviani
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Background The purpose of this research is to generate new evidence on the economic consequences of multimorbidity on households in terms of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures and their implications for catastrophic OOP expenditure.
Anup Karan +5 more
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Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health: A Global Stocktake
Abstract This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures by reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. The paper presents estimates for 146 countries from all World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the ...
Eozenou, Patrick +2 more
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Out-of-pocket expenditure on institutional delivery in India [PDF]
Though promotion of institutional delivery is used as a strategy to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, about half of the deliveries in India are conducted at home without any medical care. Among women who deliver at home, one in four cites cost as barrier to facility-based care.
Sanjay K, Mohanty, Akanksha, Srivastava
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Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused unprecedented harm to humanity and economies worldwide. A study of economic impact of COVID-19 patients in urban slums is limited.
D R Sunil Kumar +3 more
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Background There are few studies on the impact of out-of-pocket mental health care expenditures and sociodemographic factors on the probability of Mexican households to incur catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE).
Lina Diaz-Castro +3 more
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