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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
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Effect of multimorbidity on utilisation and out-of-pocket expenditure in Indonesia: quantile regression analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Multimorbidity (the presence of two or more non-communicable diseases) is a major growing challenge for many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
K. Anindya, N. Ng, R. Atun, Tiara Marthias, Yang Zhao, B. McPake, Alexander van Heusden, Tian-Xin Pan, J. Lee   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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, Tatenda T. Yemeke, Alie F. Tawah, Vivek Kulkarni, Manuela Villar Uribe   +4 more
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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
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Development, validation & pilot testing of a questionnaire to assess healthcare seeking behaviour, healthcare service utilization & out-of-pocket expenditure of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups of Odisha, India

The Indian journal of medical research, 2023
Background & objectives: Assessing healthcare seeking behaviour (HSB), healthcare utilization and related out-of-pocket expenditures of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of India through a prism of the health system may help to achieve ...
Jyoti Ghosal, A. Dutta, J. Kshatri, Arundhuti Das, S. Kanungo, Aalapti Singh, Sushmita Kerketta, S. Ghosal, Harpreet Kaur, M. Bal, M. Ranjit, S. Satpathy, S. Pati   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket health expenditure and associated factors among patients with hypertension in Debre-Tabor Comphrensive Specialized Hospital, South Gondar zone, Northwest Ethiopia, 2020

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, Banchlay Addis, Tsega Hagos   +2 more
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Health care utilization and out-of-pocket expenditure of type 2 diabetic patients: A study in primary care in Bhubaneswar, India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
Background: Globally, noncommunicable diseases (NCD) demand a higher healthcare expenditure. Among NCDs, diabetes mellitus is often associated with multiple, co-existing chronic conditions. In low- and middle-income countries where most of the healthcare
Sandipana Pati, S. Swain, M. van den Akker, F. Schellevis, Sanghamitra Pati, J. Burgers   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ophthalmic Medication Expenditures and Out-of-Pocket Spending [PDF]

Ophthalmology, 2020
To estimate temporal trends in total and out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures for ophthalmic prescription medications among adults in the United States.Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study.Participants in the 2007 through 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 18 years of age or older.
Evan M, Chen, Ninani, Kombo, Christopher C, Teng, Prithvi, Mruthyunjaya, Kristen, Nwanyanwu, Ravi, Parikh   +5 more
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Assessing the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments and their determinants in Bangladesh: evidence from the nationwide Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2016

International Health, 2021
Background Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare have been increasing steadily in Bangladesh, which deteriorates the financial risk protection of many households. Methods We aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE)
Sayem Ahmed, M. Ahmed, M. Hasan, Gazi Golam Mehdi, Z. Islam, C. Rehnberg, L. Niessen, Jahangir A. M. Khan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cost Analysis on Total Cost Incurred (Including Out-of-pocket Expenditure and Social Cost) During Palliative Care in Cases of Head-and-Neck Cancer at a Government Regional Cancer Centre in North India

Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 2022
Objectives: Palliative care involves providing symptomatic relief from the pain and stress of a severe illness to markedly improve the quality of life for both the patients and their families. It imposes high indirect costs on the patients. The study was
R. Harsvardhan, Tanvi Arora, Saurabh Singh, P. Lal   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source