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An Analysis of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Ghana
Frontiers in Health Services, 2022 IntroductionGhana implemented a universal health coverage scheme aimed at attaining financial risk protection against catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditures. The effort has yielded mixed benefits for the different socio-economic profiles of the population.
Sataru, Fuseini +2 more
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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 +4 more
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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 +1 more
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Out-of-Pocket Household Expenditures on Medical Injections in Cambodia [PDF]
PharmacoEconomics - Open, 2018 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.This study describes injection practices and associated household expenditures in rural northwest Cambodia.We assessed care-seeking patterns of surveyed adult family ...
Sachiko Ozawa +4 more
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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 +1 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionHypertension is a non-communicable chronic disease that has a wide financial effect at the individual and household levels especially in developing countries due to its complexity and chronicity.
Melkamu Alemayehu +2 more
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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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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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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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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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