Beyond reducing direct medical cost: examining health outcomes in tuberculosis through a difference-in-differences analysis of South Korea’s out-of-pocket payment exception policy [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundUniversal health coverage and social protection are major global goals for tuberculosis. This study aimed to investigate the effects of an expanded policy to guarantee out-of-pocket costs on the treatment outcomes of patients with tuberculosis ...
Sarah Yu +7 more
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Rational Drug Prescribing a Way to Reduce Patients Out of Pocket Payment [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2018 No Abstract###
Ali SOROUSH +3 more
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Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam [PDF]
, 2009 Aims: This study has three aims: 1) to measure the impact of the Vietnamese Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) programme on out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of health care after correcting for care-seeking and insurance-seeking self-selection biases; 2) to ...
Ali, Shehzad Inayat
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Managing Urban Stroke Health Expenditures in China: Role of Payment Method and Hospital Level [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022 Background Stroke is one of the leading public health issues in China and imposes a heavy financial burden on patients and the healthcare system. This study assess which payment method provides the lowest hospital costs for China’s healthcare system and
Yong Yang +7 more
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Redistributive Effects of Health Care Out-of-Pocket Payments in Cameroon [PDF]
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2021 Abstract Background: The bulk of health care financing in Cameroon is derived from out-of-pocket payments. Given that poverty is pervasive with a third of the population living below the poverty line, health care financing from out-of-pocket payments is likely to have redistributive and equity effects.
Augustin Ntembe +2 more
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Public Health in Practice, 2022 Objectives: This study aims to clarify the financial burden of health on the elderly. Out-of-pocket payment (OOPP) in a major private general hospital in Phnom Penh was considered an indicator of financial burden. Study design: This study is a three-year
Yurie Kobashi +9 more
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Will the Economic Recession Inhibit the Out-of-Pocket Payment Willingness for Health Care? [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 We used an individual regression and panel data regression method to analyze the samples of 60 countries from 2000 to 2016 to study the impact of the economic recession on residents’ out-of-pocket payment willingness for health care.
Zheng Y, Huang Z, Jiang T.
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A spatial analysis of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Malawi
Health Policy and Planning, 2021 Abstract Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on health remain high in many low- and middle-income countries despite policy efforts aiming to reduce these health costs by targeting their hotspots. Hotspot targeting remains inadequate, particularly where the OOP expenditures are related across geographic regions due to unequal demand, supply ...
Martin Limbikani Mwale +2 more
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Out-of-pocket payments in hospital bills: a challenge to management [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018 ABSTRACT Objetive: To analyse out-of-pocket payments (OOP) by health insurance company in hospital bills. Method: Cross-sectional study with quantitative approach. The information was obtained in the database of a health insurance company in the north of Paraná State and categorised into administrative and technical OOP.
Rodrigues, July Anne Rossi Michelin +3 more
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Average out-of-pocket payment (Euro) across socioeconomic quintiles.
, 2021 Average out-of-pocket payment (Euro) across socioeconomic quintiles.
Jahangir A. M. Khan (8787395) +10 more
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