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Impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
A BSTRACT Background: Out of the 1.324 billion people in India (2016), around 12.4% of the population is below the poverty line.
Shyamkumar Sriram, Muayad Albadrani
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A community-based cross-sectional study on out-of-pocket expenditure for coronavirus disease patients in urban slums, Bengaluru Rural

Journal of Medical Evidence, 2023
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused unprecedented harm to humanity and economies worldwide. A study of economic impact of COVID-19 patients in urban slums is limited.
D R Sunil Kumar, Lakshmi Hulugappa, R Vidya, S Manjula   +3 more
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Out of pocket expenditure and its associated factors in neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of tertiary care government hospital of Agra District, Uttar Pradesh

Indian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: Neonatal health remains a thrust area of public health, and an increased out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) may hamper efforts toward universal health coverage.
Renu Agrawal, Rudresh Negi, Sunil Kumar Kaushal, Sunil Kumar Misra   +3 more
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Incidence of catastrophic healthcare expenditure and its main determinants in Mexican households caring for a person with a mental disorder

Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2021
Background There are few studies on the impact of out-of-pocket mental health care expenditures and sociodemographic factors on the probability of Mexican households to incur catastrophic healthcare expenditures (CHE).
Lina Diaz-Castro, Héctor Cabello-Rangel, Carlos Pineda-Antúnez, Alejandra Pérez de León   +3 more
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A National Study of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures for Mammography Screening [PDF]

Journal of Women's Health, 2011
To identify variations in screening mammography expenditures, primarily out-of-pocket and total expenditures, of women 40-64 years of age in the United States and factors associated with variations.Retrospective analysis of data collected from the 2007 and 2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).
Traci, LeMasters, Usha, Sambamoorthi
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An Analysis of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures in Ghana

Frontiers in Health Services, 2022
IntroductionGhana implemented a universal health coverage scheme aimed at attaining financial risk protection against catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditures. The effort has yielded mixed benefits for the different socio-economic profiles of the population.
Sataru, Fuseini, Twumasi-Ankrah, Kwame, Seddoh, Anthony   +2 more
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The socio-economic burden of cancer: An observation from the palliative care OPD

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022
A cross-sectional study was planned to assess the socio-economic burden of cancer among patients referred for palliative care. Patients referred within 6 months of diagnosis were grouped as early while others were late referrals.
Sushmita Ghoshal, Minni Arora, Adrija Chakrabarti, Avradeep Datta, Treshita Dey   +4 more
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The determinants and costs of bypassing small hospitals in a ‘free’ health system: A cross sectional study in Sri Lanka

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2017
Background: Rising out-of-pocket health expenditure due to policy issues is a major factor contributing to deterioration of efficiency and equity of healthcare systems.Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the determinants of bypassing ...
Sathira Kasun Perera, Manuj Chrishantha Weerasinghe   +1 more
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Out-of-Pocket Household Expenditures on Medical Injections in Cambodia [PDF]

PharmacoEconomics - Open, 2018
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.This study describes injection practices and associated household expenditures in rural northwest Cambodia.We assessed care-seeking patterns of surveyed adult family ...
Sachiko Ozawa, Tatenda T. Yemeke, Alie F. Tawah, Vivek Kulkarni, Manuela Villar Uribe   +4 more
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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
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