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Distribution and Determinants of Out-of-pocket Healthcare Expenditures in Bangladesh [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2017 As in many low-income and middle-income countries, out-of-pocket (OOP) payments by patients or their families are a key healthcare financing mechanism in Bangladesh that leads to economic burdens for households. The objective of this study was to identify whether and to what extent socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral factors of the population ...
Mahumud, Rashidul Alam +5 more
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Determinants of out of pocket health expenditure in Turkey [PDF]
European Journal of Public Health, 2013 Background Financial protection against the adverse effects of household out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures is an important policy goal for governments. The aim of the study is to quantify the extent of OOP health care expenditure and determine the factors responsible for it in Turkey.
K Sozmen, B Unal
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Problemy Zarządzania, 2019 The aim of the paper is to present the financial consequences of the entry into force of the Reimbursement Act in 2012 for the National Health Fund, a payer of public funds, and for individual patients. A greater burden on the society – i.e.
Zofia Skrzypczak, Jadwiga Suchecka
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Has Ayushman Bharat Dwindled the Out-of-Pocket Expenditure?
Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences, 2021 BACKGROUND The Ayushman Bharat scheme claimed to cover all pre-existing ailments and 1,350 medical packages covering day care treatments, medicine, diagnosis, and surgery. We wanted to address the research question of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana viability in depleting pocket expenses in a rustic terrain of Haryana.
Renu Bala +3 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic increased the utilisation of healthcare services. Such utilization could lead to higher out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) and catastrophic health expenditures (CHE).
Elumalai Rajalakshmi +7 more
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Factors Associated with Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Polish Regions [PDF]
Healthcare, 2021 Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are perceived as the most regressive means of health financing. Using the panel-data approach and region-aggregated data from Statistics Poland, this research investigated associations between socio-economic factors and OOP health spending in 16 Polish regions for the period 1999–2019.
Błażej Łyszczarz, Zhaleh Abdi
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Changes in Catastrophic Health Expenditures Depending on Health Policies in Turkey
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Without any financial protection out of pocket health expenses are essential both because their increase causes difficulties in accessing higher quality health services for households and more importantly because it complicates access to most basic ...
Guvenc Kockaya +2 more
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Pathways to Reduce Household Out-of-Pocket Expenditure
, 2020 Bangladesh allocates a much smaller share of the government budget to health than countries of similar income level. Reallocation is politically challenging but could offer the biggest potential source of fiscal space for health, larger than the space that economic growth can bring.
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia +10 more
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Global Health Action, 2020 Background Hypertension requires life-long medical care, which may cause economic burden and even lead to catastrophic health expenditure. Objective To estimate the extent of out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care at a population level and its ...
Esteban Londoño Agudelo +7 more
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Co-payments for general practitioners in Denmark:an analysis using two policy models [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: The increasing health expenditure for general practitioners (GPs) in Denmark requires that other ways of financing the health system are investigated.
Andrioti, Despena, Hansen, Camilla
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