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Out-of-pocket Payments for Healthcare in India
Journal of Health Management, 2017This paper examines the impact of out-of-pocket (OOP) health payment on impoverishment of poorest households using unit-level records of latest (68th: 2011–2012) round data of National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO). This is examined by estimating the prevalence, intensity and incidence of catastrophic health payments across different economic ...
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Out-of-pocket payments for unintentional injuries: a study in rural Bangladesh
International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2009This paper studies the nature and extent of out-of-pocket expenses for unintentional injuries, using the context of rural Bangladesh. A cross-sectional study consisting of 23,113 people was performed through multistage cluster sampling. Chi-square analysis and pie-diagrams were used. A total of 3411 injury victims were identified in this survey.
Koustuv, Dalal, Aminur, Rahman
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The Determinants of Out-of-Pocket Payments: Evidence from Turkey
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011There have been several attempts to improve the availability, quality, and the use of primary health care services in Turkey in recent years. In order to have a successful reform policy for the national health care system, policymakers need to have information about the alternative financing systems of health expenditures, including the out-of-pocket ...
Erdogan Yilmaz +2 more
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The Impact of Eliminating Out-of-Pocket Payments on Asthma Medication Use
Annals of the American Thoracic SocietyAbstract Rationale High costs of controller therapies may be a barrier to guideline-recommended asthma treatment. Objectives We determined whether eliminating out-of-pocket (OOP) payments among low-income patients ...
Kate M. Johnson +6 more
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The Burden of Out-of-Pocket Payments for Health Care in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
JAMA, 2002In the 1990s, the Republic of Georgia instituted health care reforms to convert the centralized, state-operated health care system inherited from the Soviet Union to a decentralized, market-driven system of health care delivery. Under the new system, 87% of health care expenditures are financed through out-of-pocket payments at the point of service.To ...
Jacek, Skarbinski +5 more
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Equity in out-of-pocket payments for hospital care: Evidence from India
Health Policy, 2007The lack of formal health insurance and inadequate social safety nets cause families in most low-income countries to finance health spending through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, leaving poor families unable to insure their consumption during periods of major illnesses.To examine how well the Indian healthcare system protects households of differing ...
Kakoli, Roy, David Hill, Howard
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Financial catastrophe and poverty impacts of out-of-pocket health payments in Turkey
The European Journal of Health Economics, 2014To determine the prevalence of catastrophic health payments, examine the determinants of catastrophic expenditures, and assess the poverty impact of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments.Data came from the 2004 to 2010 Household Budget Survey. Catastrophic health spending was defined by health payments as percentage of household consumption expenditures and ...
ŞAHİN, İSMET +2 more
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Elders' Out-of-Pocket Payment for Community-Based Long-Term Care
Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 1994This research describes characteristics of community living elders aged 71 and older with long-term care (LTC) needs who pay out-of-pocket for community-based LTC. Community living elders with higher incomes, more friends and non-child relatives outside the home, and greater ADL or IADL needs are more likely to purchase LTC than those without these ...
A M, Hays, L G, Branch
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