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Out-of-pocket expenditure on institutional delivery in India [PDF]

Health Policy and Planning, 2012
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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Multimorbidity and Out-of-pocket Expenditure on Medicines: A Systematic Review [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2017
Background Multimorbidity, the presence of two or more non-communicable diseases (NCD), is a costly and complex challenge for health systems globally. Patients with NCDs incur high levels of out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE), often on medicines, but the literature on the association between OOPE on medicines and ...
Sum, Grace, Hone, Thomas, Atun, Rifat, Millett, Christopher, Suhrcke, Marc, Mahal, Ajay, Koh, Gerald Choon-Huat, Lee, John Tayu   +7 more
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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
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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
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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, Sarker, Abdur Razzaque, Sultana, Marufa, Islam, Ziaul, Khan, Jahangir, Morton, Alec   +5 more
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Impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
A BSTRACT Background: Out of the 1.324 billion people in India (2016), around 12.4% of the population is below the poverty line.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
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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
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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
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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
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A National Study of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Mammography Screening [PDF]

Journal of Women's Health, 2011
To identify variations in screening mammography expenditures, primarily out-of-pocket and total expenditures, of women 40-64 years of age in the United States and factors associated with variations.Retrospective analysis of data collected from the 2007 and 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
Traci, LeMasters, Usha, Sambamoorthi
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