Results 1 to 10 of about 119,319 (286)

Estimation of out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic health expenditure among households of urban areas of Haryana (India) [PDF]

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
Background: The health system financing of almost all low- and middle-income countries, including India, relies heavily on out-of-pocket (OOP) payments. Out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) for patient care has been known to cause maximum impoverishment.
Ramesh Verma, Himani Arora, Meena Rajput, Meenakshi Kalhan, Vinod Chayal, Ginni Agrawal, Rohit Dhaka, Achchhesh Singmar, Divya Sharma, Meenu Yadav, Dwarka Nath, Amandeep Kaur, Mohit Rohilla, Amit Kumar, Pankul Parnami   +14 more
doaj   +2 more sources

IJCM_237A: Assessment of out-of-pocket expenditure amongst admitted patients in a tertiary care centre of Maharashtra: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: In India, financing health-care majorly constitutes out-of-pocket expenditure. Health expenditure in India accounts for Objectives: 1. To assess the total out-of-pocket expenditure of patients due to current illness. 2.
Titas Ghoshal, P. L. Gattani, S. L. Maidapwad   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Multimorbidity, healthcare use and catastrophic health expenditure by households in India: a cross-section analysis of self-reported morbidity from national sample survey data 2017–18

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
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, Habib Hasan Farooqui, Suhaib Hussain, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Manu Raj Mathur   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Have a Higher Risk of Falling Into Catastrophic Health Expenditures?

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

A community-based cross-sectional study on out-of-pocket expenditure for coronavirus disease patients in urban slums, Bengaluru Rural

Journal of Medical Evidence, 2023
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, Lakshmi Hulugappa, R Vidya, S Manjula   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Out of pocket expenditure and its associated factors in neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of tertiary care government hospital of Agra District, Uttar Pradesh

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: Neonatal health remains a thrust area of public health, and an increased out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) may hamper efforts toward universal health coverage.
Renu Agrawal, Rudresh Negi, Sunil Kumar Kaushal, Sunil Kumar Misra   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Incidence of catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its main determinants in Mexican households caring for a person with a mental disorder

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2021
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, Héctor Cabello-Rangel, Carlos Pineda-Antúnez, Alejandra Pérez de León   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The socio-economic burden of cancer: An observation from the palliative care OPD

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
A cross-sectional study was planned to assess the socio-economic burden of cancer among patients referred for palliative care. Patients referred within 6 months of diagnosis were grouped as early while others were late referrals.
Sushmita Ghoshal, Minni Arora, Adrija Chakrabarti, Avradeep Datta, Treshita Dey   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The determinants and costs of bypassing small hospitals in a ‘free’ health system: A cross sectional study in Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2017
Background: Rising out-of-pocket health expenditure due to policy issues is a major factor contributing to deterioration of efficiency and equity of healthcare systems.Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the determinants of bypassing ...
Sathira Kasun Perera, Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A cross-sectional study to assess the out-of-pocket expenditure of families on the health care of children younger than 5 years in a rural area

Family Medicine and Community Health, 2018
Objective: This study aimed to estimate the out-of-pocket expenditure of families on the health care of children younger than 5 years in a rural area of Kancheepuram district.
Saurabh RamBihariLal Shrivastava, Prateek Saurabh Shrivastava   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source