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Health Care Expenditure of Households in Magway, Myanmar [PDF]

, 2015
2015-02Myanmar has a high proportion of out-of-pocket (OOP) health care expenditures with limited cost-sharing mechanisms. In Myanmar, there were limited data on the frequency of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) due to OOP payments, as well as on ...
INN, KYNN KHAING, HAMAJIMA, NOBUYUKI, AMONOV, MALIK, MYO, OO   +3 more
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Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure. [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: More than 72% of health expenditure in India is financed by individual households at the time of illness through out-of-pocket payments. This is a highly regressive way of financing health care and sometimes leads to impoverishment.
Ranson, Kent, Van Damme, Wim, Van der Stuyft, P., Ranson, K., Criel, Bart, Devadasan Narayanan, Van der Stuyft Patrick, Van Damme, W., Narayanan Devadasan, Van Damme Wim, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, Devadasan, N., Devadasan, Narayanan, Criel Bart, Wim Van Damme, Bart Criel, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Kent Ranson, Criel, B., Ranson Kent   +19 more
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Out-of-Pocket expenditure and patient experience of care under-Indonesia's national health insurance: A cross-sectional facility-based study in six provinces.

International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2022
BACKGROUND Low- and middle-income countries worldwide are striving to achieve universal health coverage (UHC), frequently through expansion of statutory health insurance schemes. However, oftentimes evidence is lacking on progress towards quality patient-
Viktoria Couturier, S. Srivastava, B. Hidayat, M. de Allegri   +3 more
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Out Of Pocket Expenditure On Thalassemia Major And Its Implications On The Household Economics.

Journal of Ayub Medical College, 2022
BACKGROUND Pakistan faces a considerable burden of disease with regard to inherited blood disorder, i.e., Thalassemia Major. Its economic implications are least studied before, particularly when it comes to ascertaining a household's out of pocket ...
Mariam Khan Qamar, B. T. Shaikh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

State-wise differentials in average out of pocket expenditure, household consumption expenditure, and share of out-of-pocket expenditure on total household expenditure for treatment of any disability in India.

, 2023
State-wise differentials in average out of pocket expenditure, household consumption expenditure, and share of out-of-pocket expenditure on total household expenditure for treatment of any disability in India.
Saritha Nair (705029), Ravinder Singh (72179), Jeetendra Yadav (12225391), Niharika Tripathi (443717), Geetha R. Menon (7436228), Jitenkumar Singh (17138049), M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao (12225478)   +6 more
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Financial Consequences of the Act on Reimbursement of Medicines for the National Health Fund and Patients

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
doaj   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket costs and catastrophic healthcare expenditure for families of children requiring surgery in sub-Saharan Africa.

Surgery, 2023
BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket healthcare costs leading to catastrophic healthcare expenditure pose a financial threat for families of children undergoing surgery in Sub-Saharan African countries, where universal healthcare coverage is often insufficient ...
Ava Yap, Bolusefe T. Olatunji, Samuel Nagesh, Dilon Mweru, Steve Kisembo, Franck Masumbuko, E. Ameh, A. Lebbie, B. Bvulani, Eric Hansen, G. Philipo, Madeleine Carroll, P. J. Hsu, Emma Bryce, Maija S. Cheung, Maíra Fedatto, Ruth Laverde, D. Ozgediz   +17 more
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Out- Of- Pocket health expenditure and household consumption patterns in Benin: Is there a crowding out effect?

Health Economics Review, 2023
Health shocks are common and have serious consequences for households in developing countries where health insurance is lacking. In this study, we examine whether out-of-pocket health expenditures crowd out household consumption of non-healthcare ...
H. Houeninvo, Venant Cossi Celestin Quenum, M. Senou   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Household catastrophic health expenditure for COVID-19 during March-August 2021, in South India: a cross-sectional study

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, Akhil Sasidharan, Bhavani Shankara Bagepally, Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar, Ponnaiah Manickam, T. S. Selva Vinayagam, P. Sampath, K Parthipan   +7 more
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