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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
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Health Care Expenditure of Households in Magway, Myanmar [PDF]

, 2015
2015-02Myanmar has a high proportion of out-of-pocket (OOP) health care expenditures with limited cost-sharing mechanisms. In Myanmar, there were limited data on the frequency of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) due to OOP payments, as well as on ...
INN, KYNN KHAING, HAMAJIMA, NOBUYUKI, AMONOV, MALIK, MYO, OO   +3 more
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Indian community health insurance schemes provide partial protection against catastrophic health expenditure. [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: More than 72% of health expenditure in India is financed by individual households at the time of illness through out-of-pocket payments. This is a highly regressive way of financing health care and sometimes leads to impoverishment.
Ranson, Kent, Van Damme, Wim, Van der Stuyft, P., Ranson, K., Criel, Bart, Devadasan Narayanan, Van der Stuyft Patrick, Van Damme, W., Narayanan Devadasan, Van Damme Wim, Van der Stuyft, Patrick, Devadasan, N., Devadasan, Narayanan, Criel Bart, Wim Van Damme, Bart Criel, Patrick Van der Stuyft, Kent Ranson, Criel, B., Ranson Kent   +19 more
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Socioeconomic differentials in average out of pocket expenditure, household consumption expenditure, and share of out-of-pocket expenditure on total household expenditure for treatment of any disability in India.

, 2023
Socioeconomic differentials in average out of pocket expenditure, household consumption expenditure, and share of out-of-pocket expenditure on total household expenditure for treatment of any disability in India.
Saritha Nair (705029), Ravinder Singh (72179), Jeetendra Yadav (12225391), Niharika Tripathi (443717), Geetha R. Menon (7436228), Jitenkumar Singh (17138049), M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao (12225478)   +6 more
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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
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State-wise differentials in average out of pocket expenditure, household consumption expenditure, and share of out-of-pocket expenditure on total household expenditure for treatment of any disability in India.

, 2023
State-wise differentials in average out of pocket expenditure, household consumption expenditure, and share of out-of-pocket expenditure on total household expenditure for treatment of any disability in India.
Saritha Nair (705029), Ravinder Singh (72179), Jeetendra Yadav (12225391), Niharika Tripathi (443717), Geetha R. Menon (7436228), Jitenkumar Singh (17138049), M. Vishnu Vardhana Rao (12225478)   +6 more
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Determinants of out of pocket health expenditure in Turkey [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2013
Background Financial protection against the adverse effects of household out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures is an important policy goal for governments. The aim of the study is to quantify the extent of OOP health care expenditure and determine the factors responsible for it in Turkey.
K Sozmen, B Unal
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Factors Associated with Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Polish Regions [PDF]

Healthcare, 2021
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are perceived as the most regressive means of health financing. Using the panel-data approach and region-aggregated data from Statistics Poland, this research investigated associations between socio-economic factors and OOP health spending in 16 Polish regions for the period 1999–2019.
Błażej Łyszczarz, Zhaleh Abdi
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Determining factors influence out-of-pocket health expenditure among the low-income group in Malaysia [PDF]

, 2020
A substantial proportion of the population is still struggling to achieve socio-economic and good health, i.e., the low-income groups. The low-income group in Malaysia might bear a higher burden of out-of-pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) and health ...
Said, Rusmawati, Ismail, Normaz Wana, Ismail, Norfatihah   +2 more
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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
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