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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
doaj   +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
doaj   +1 more source

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

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
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in Catastrophic Health Expenditures Depending on Health Policies in Turkey

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Without any financial protection out of pocket health expenses are essential both because their increase causes difficulties in accessing higher quality health services for households and more importantly because it complicates access to most basic ...
Guvenc Kockaya, Gülpembe Oguzhan, Zafer Çalşkan   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care: a population-based study in low-income urban Medellin, Colombia

Global Health Action, 2020
Background Hypertension requires life-long medical care, which may cause economic burden and even lead to catastrophic health expenditure. Objective To estimate the extent of out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care at a population level and its ...
Esteban Londoño Agudelo, Anaí García Fariñas, Viviana Pérez Ospina, Cecilia Taborda Pérez, Tatiana Villacrés Landeta, Tullia Battaglioli, Rubén Gómez Arias, Patrick Van der Stuyft   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prospecting the protein design landscape

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This review outlines the current state of various protein design approaches. We discuss the current possibilities enabled by recently released tools, highlight future avenues to pursue in protein design, and underscore the crucial role of key databases and resources for successful protein design workflows.
Jakob R. Riccabona, Katharina T. Stonig, Jens Meiler, Clara T. Schoeder, Monica L. Fernández‐Quintero   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catastrophic health expenditure among geriatric population of Lucknow district, India

Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, 2017
Background: Health system that is chiefly financed by out of pocket expenditure can have varying impact on patients belonging to different income groups.
Pavan Pandey, Shivendra Kumar Singh
doaj   +1 more source

Catastrophic healthcare expenditure and coping strategies among patients attending cancer treatment services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background With the rapid increase in magnitude and mortality of cancer, which is costly disease to manage, several patients particularly in developing countries are facing a huge financial burden. The study aimed to examine the incidence of catastrophic
Gebremicheal Gebreslassie Kasahun, Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle, Yohannes Hailemichael, Aynalem Abraha Woldemariam, Teferi Gedif Fenta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Entropy‐Driven Design of Low‐Melting‐Point Alloys via Compositionally Complex Strategy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Conventional low‐melting‐point alloys (LMPAs) are limited by a narrow compositional space and inherent property trade‐offs. This review presents an entropy‐driven design strategy that overcomes these limitations, ushering in a new class of low‐melting‐point compositionally complex alloys (LMCCAs).
Yinghui Shang, Jianxiang Zhao, Zhaoqi Chen, Hao Gong, Yinsen Yan, Junlei Tao, Yong Yang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source