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Has Ayushman Bharat Dwindled the Out-of-Pocket Expenditure?

open access: yesJournal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences, 2021
BACKGROUND The Ayushman Bharat scheme claimed to cover all pre-existing ailments and 1,350 medical packages covering day care treatments, medicine, diagnosis, and surgery. We wanted to address the research question of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana viability in depleting pocket expenses in a rustic terrain of Haryana.
Renu Bala   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Trends in catastrophic health expenditure in India: 1993 to 2014. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
OBJECTIVE: To investigate trends in out-of-pocket health-care payments and catastrophic health expenditure in India by household age composition. METHODS: We obtained data from four national consumer expenditure surveys and three health-care utilization ...
Clarke, Lynda   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Pathways to Reduce Household Out-of-Pocket Expenditure

open access: yes, 2020
Bangladesh allocates a much smaller share of the government budget to health than countries of similar income level. Reallocation is politically challenging but could offer the biggest potential source of fiscal space for health, larger than the space that economic growth can bring.
Bonilla-Chacin, Maria Eugenia   +10 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Household catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment due to rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization in Malaysia. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND: While healthcare costs for rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization may be burdensome on households in Malaysia, exploration on the distribution and catastrophic impact of these expenses on households are lacking.
A Wagstaff   +25 more
core   +8 more sources

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

open access: yesGlobal 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   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Out-of-pocket spending and financial burden among low income adults after Medicaid expansions in the United States: quasi-experimental difference-in-difference study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
OBJECTIVE:To examine the association between expansion of the Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act and changes in healthcare spending among low income adults during the first four years of the policy implementation (2014-17).
Gotanda, Hiroshi   +3 more
core  

Catastrophic health expenditure among geriatric population of Lucknow district, India

open access: yesJournal 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

open access: yesBMC 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypertension in urban slums of southern India: Burden, awareness, health seeking, control and risk factor profile

open access: yesIndian Heart Journal, 2023
Introduction: Hypertension is the leading risk factor for global disease burden. Inequalities in health among urban poor and non-poor is a matter of concern. The current study was done to estimate the prevalence of hypertension and to describe the health
P.S. Rakesh   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being [PDF]

open access: yes
According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a house-hold is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold.
Karine Lamiraud, Ramses H. Abul Naga
core   +6 more sources

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