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Household catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment due to rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization in Malaysia. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: While healthcare costs for rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization may be burdensome on households in Malaysia, exploration on the distribution and catastrophic impact of these expenses on households are lacking.
A Wagstaff, Chiu-Wan Ng, E Van Doorslaer, HL Chee, K Kananatu, K Xu, K Xu, K Zaman, KB Phua, Kok-Foo Lee, Mark Jit, OA O'Donnell, OA O'Donnell, PF Chai, R Deogaonkar, R Mirzayeva, R Rheingans, S Verguet, Tharani Loganathan, UD Parashar, VP Hsu, Way-Seah Lee, WD Savedoff, WS Lee, WS Lee, Yue Wang   +25 more
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Catastrophic health expenditure among geriatric population of Lucknow district, India

Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2017
Background: Health system that is chiefly financed by out of pocket expenditure can have varying impact on patients belonging to different income groups.
Pavan Pandey, Shivendra Kumar Singh
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Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and coping strategies among patients attending cancer treatment services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background With the rapid increase in magnitude and mortality of cancer, which is costly disease to manage, several patients particularly in developing countries are facing a huge financial burden. The study aimed to examine the incidence of catastrophic
Gebremicheal Gebreslassie Kasahun, Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle, Yohannes Hailemichael, Aynalem Abraha Woldemariam, Teferi Gedif Fenta   +4 more
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Hypertension in urban slums of southern India: Burden, awareness, health seeking, control and risk factor profile

Indian Heart Journal, 2023
Introduction: Hypertension is the leading risk factor for global disease burden. Inequalities in health among urban poor and non-poor is a matter of concern. The current study was done to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and to describe the health
P.S. Rakesh, B.A. Renjini, Sreelakshmi Mohandas, Jaideep Menon, Mathews Numpelil, Aswathy Sreedevi, Beena Vasudevan   +6 more
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Out-of-pocket spending and financial burden among low income adults after Medicaid expansions in the United States: quasi-experimental difference-in-difference study. [PDF]

, 2020
OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act and changes in healthcare spending among low income adults during the first four years of the policy implementation (2014-17).
Gotanda, Hiroshi, Jha, Ashish K, Kominski, Gerald F, Tsugawa, Yusuke   +3 more
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Trends in catastrophic health expenditure in India: 1993 to 2014. [PDF]

, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To investigate trends in out-of-pocket health-care payments and catastrophic health expenditure in India by household age composition. METHODS: We obtained data from four national consumer expenditure surveys and three health-care utilization ...
Clarke, Lynda, Dandona, Lalit, Pandey, Anamika, Ploubidis, George B   +3 more
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Determinants of out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditure in rural population: A community-based study in a block of Purba Barddhaman, West Bengal

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: In India, health expenditure accounts for
Anirban Dalui, Sitikantha Banerjee, Ramaprasad Roy   +2 more
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure among Chronic Patients Attending Dessie Referral Hospital, Northeast Ethiopia

ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2021
Yohannes Shumet,1 Solomon Ahmed Mohammed,2 Mesfin Haile Kahissay,2 Birhanu Demeke2 1Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health Science, Debre Tabor University, Debre Tabor, Ethiopia; 2Department of Pharmacy, College of Medicine and Health ...
Shumet Y, Mohammed SA, Kahissay MH, Demeke B   +3 more
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Factors related to excessive out-of-pocket expenditures among the ultra-poor after discontinuity of PBF: a cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso

Health Economics Review, 2020
Background Measuring progress towards financial risk protection for the poorest is essential within the framework of Universal Health Coverage. The study assessed the level of out-of-pocket expenditure and factors associated with excessive out-of-pocket ...
Yvonne Beaugé, Valéry Ridde, Emmanuel Bonnet, Sidibé Souleymane, Naasegnibe Kuunibe, Manuela De Allegri   +5 more
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Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria

Health Economics Review, 2022
Background The Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since it’s became operational in 2005. However, many Nigerians still pay out of pocket for medical expenses, and this drive them to incurring ...
Henry C. Edeh
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