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Can insurance reduce catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure? [PDF]
, 2008 In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into poverty ...
Rama Joglekar
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Understanding out-of-pocket expenditure in India: a systematic review. [PDF]
Front Public HealthIntroductionOut-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) constitutes a substantial portion of healthcare costs in India, accounting for 47.1% of the Total Health Expenditure in 2019–20. Despite a decline from previous years, OOPE remains a significant financial burden, contributing to catastrophic health expenditures and impoverishment for households.MethodsA ...
Kamath S +9 more
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Janani Shishu Suraksha Karyakram and out of pocket expenditure
Indian Journal of Public Health, 2016 Manas Pratim Roy +2 more
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Out-of-Pocket Household Expenditures on Medical Injections in Cambodia [PDF]
PharmacoEconomics - Open, 2018 Background 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.
Kulkarni, Vivek +4 more
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Advance directives completion and hospital out‐of‐pocket expenditures [PDF]
Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2021 AbstractIntroductionHealth care costs remain high at the end of life. It is not known if there is a relationship between advance directive (AD) completion and hospital out‐of‐pocket costs. This analysis investigated whether AD completion was associated with lower hospital out‐of‐pocket costs at end of life.MethodsWe used Health and Retirement Study ...
Yujun Zhu, Susan Enguidanos
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Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health: A Global Stocktake
The World Bank Research Observer, 2020 Abstract This paper provides an overview of research on out-of-pocket health expenditures by reviewing the various summary measures and the results of multi-country studies using these measures. The paper presents estimates for 146 countries from all World Bank income groups for all summary measures, along with correlations between the ...
Eozenou, Patrick +2 more
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Impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in India
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 ABSTRACT Background: Out of the 1.324 billion people in India (2016), around 12.4% of the population is below the poverty line. In India, out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOP) expenses account for about 62.6% of total health expenditure – one of the highest in the world.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
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Out-of-pocket expenditure on institutional delivery in India [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2012 Though promotion of institutional delivery is used as a strategy to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality, about half of the deliveries in India are conducted at home without any medical care. Among women who deliver at home, one in four cites cost as barrier to facility-based care.
Sanjay K, Mohanty, Akanksha, Srivastava
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Multimorbidity and Out-of-pocket Expenditure on Medicines: A Systematic Review [PDF]
European Journal of Public Health, 2017 Background Multimorbidity, the presence of two or more non-communicable diseases (NCD), is a costly and complex challenge for health systems globally. Patients with NCDs incur high levels of out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE), often on medicines, but the literature on the association between OOPE on medicines and ...
Sum, Grace +7 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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