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Out-of-pocket payments for treatment of COVID-19 in Iran
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2022 Introduction Out-of-pocket (OOP) is among the payment methods in Iran’s health system. The present study aimed to examine the OOP treatment costs for patients with COVID-19 in Iran. Methods A descriptive-analytical, cross-sectional study was conducted in
Ali Reza Yusefi +6 more
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Decreasing Out of Pocket Payment: Direct or Indirect
Social Determinants of Health, 2015 In Iran, in developing 4 th national development plan OPP was considered and one of the goals of the program set for it. By the end of the program, OPP for health should be decreased from 60% to 30%. The program did not achieve to this goal and again in 5 th national developmental program it was focused.
Mohammad-Reza Sohrabi
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Redistributive Effects of Health Care Out-of-Pocket Payments in Cameroon [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Abstract Background: The bulk of health care financing in Cameroon is derived from out-of-pocket payments. Given that poverty is pervasive with a third of the population living below the poverty line, health care financing from out-of-pocket payments is likely to have redistributive and equity effects.
Augustin Ntembe +2 more
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Public Health in Practice, 2022 Objectives: This study aims to clarify the financial burden of health on the elderly. Out-of-pocket payment (OOPP) in a major private general hospital in Phnom Penh was considered an indicator of financial burden. Study design: This study is a three-year
Yurie Kobashi +9 more
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A spatial analysis of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Malawi
Health Policy and Planning, 2021 Abstract Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on health remain high in many low- and middle-income countries despite policy efforts aiming to reduce these health costs by targeting their hotspots. Hotspot targeting remains inadequate, particularly where the OOP expenditures are related across geographic regions due to unequal demand, supply ...
Martin Limbikani Mwale +2 more
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Out-of-pocket payments in hospital bills: a challenge to management [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018 ABSTRACT Objetive: To analyse out-of-pocket payments (OOP) by health insurance company in hospital bills. Method: Cross-sectional study with quantitative approach. The information was obtained in the database of a health insurance company in the north of Paraná State and categorised into administrative and technical OOP.
Rodrigues, July Anne Rossi Michelin +3 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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Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015 Out-of-pocket spending is an important source of healthcare financing even in countries with established prepaid financing of healthcare. However, out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) may have undesirable effects from an equity perspective. In this study, we analyse the distributive effects of OOPP in Austria based on cross-sectional information from the ...
Alice Sanwald, Engelbert Theurl
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Data Quality of Out-Of-Pocket Payment on Institutional Delivery in India
SSM - Health Systems, 2023 Abstract Estimates of out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on health care are increasingly used in research and policy. In India, estimates of OOP payment are usually derived from health surveys carried out by the National Sample Survey (NSS).
Sanjay K. Mohanty +7 more
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Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017 Background One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments.
Bakhtiar Piroozi +5 more
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