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Out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure amongst community-dwelling adults: Findings from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA) in 2016

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: The number of prescription medicines prescribed to older adults is increasing in Ireland and other countries. This is leading to higher out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure for older adults, which has several negative consequences ...
James Larkin, Ciaran Prendergast, Logan T. Murry, Michelle Flood, Barbara Clyne, Sara Burke, Conor Keegan, Fiona Boland, Tom Fahey, Nav Persaud, Rose Anne Kenny, Frank Moriarty   +11 more
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IJCM_236A: Out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare among geriatric population in central Kerala

Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: India is facing dual challenges caused by a rapid increase in burden of non-communicable diseases, marking epidemiological transition and an unprecedented expansion of geriatric population.
Merin Mariam Roy, Jose Vincent
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Out of Pocket Expenditure on Health Care among the Households of Urban Area in Dakshina Kannada

National Journal of Community Medicine, 2018
Background: Household out-of-pocket expenditure on health comprise self-medication and other expenditure paid directly by private households, irrespective of whether the contact with the health care system was established on referral or on the patient’s
Preeti Tiwari, Arijit Datta
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Households' out‐of‐pocket expenditure for healthcare in Bangladesh: A health financing incidence analysis [PDF]

, 2021
Background: Despite improvements in many health indicators, providing access to affordable healthcare remains a considerable challenge in Bangladesh. Financing incidence analysis will enable an evaluation of how well the healthcare system performs to ...
Khorshed Alam, Alec Morton, Alam, Khorshed, Sultana, M., Sultana, Marufa, Ali, Nausad, Nausad Ali, Alam, K., Morton, A., Ali, N., Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Raisul Akram, Sheikh, Nurnabi, Sarker, A.R., Sarker, Abdur Razzaque, Morton, Alec, Akram, R., Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Akram, Raisul   +19 more
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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, Hone, Thomas, Atun, Rifat, Millett, Christopher, Suhrcke, Marc, Mahal, Ajay, Koh, Gerald Choon-Huat, Lee, John Tayu   +7 more
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Multimorbidity, healthcare use and catastrophic health expenditure by households in India: a cross-section analysis of self-reported morbidity from national sample survey data 2017–18

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background The purpose of this research is to generate new evidence on the economic consequences of multimorbidity on households in terms of out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures and their implications for catastrophic OOP expenditure.
Anup Karan, Habib Hasan Farooqui, Suhaib Hussain, Mohammad Akhtar Hussain, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Manu Raj Mathur   +5 more
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Who Have a Higher Risk of Falling Into Catastrophic Health Expenditures?

Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Masyarakat, 2021
Catastrophic health expenditure is one of the challenges Indonesia faces in achieving Universal Health Coverage. Aside from being a financial disaster, the incident caused by out-of-pocket health expenditure exceeding a fixed limit can drive people into ...
Amalia Noviani
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Distribution and Determinants of Out-of-pocket Healthcare Expenditures in Bangladesh [PDF]

Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, 2017
As in many low-income and middle-income countries, out-of-pocket (OOP) payments by patients or their families are a key healthcare financing mechanism in Bangladesh that leads to economic burdens for households. The objective of this study was to identify whether and to what extent socioeconomic, demographic, and behavioral factors of the population ...
Mahumud, Rashidul Alam, Sarker, Abdur Razzaque, Sultana, Marufa, Islam, Ziaul, Khan, Jahangir, Morton, Alec   +5 more
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The impact of immigration on public and out-of-pocket health expenditure in OECD countries [PDF]

, 2020
This paper examined the impact of the inflow of new immigrants on public and out-of-pocket health expenditure in 33 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Developments (OECD) countries over the period of 2000–2015.
Gow, Jeff, Alam, Khorshed, Rana, Rezwanul Hasan   +2 more
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