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Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria

Health Economics Review, 2022
Background The Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme aimed at making health care accessible and affordable since it’s became operational in 2005. However, many Nigerians still pay out of pocket for medical expenses, and this drive them to incurring ...
Henry C. Edeh
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Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015
Out-of-pocket spending is an important source of healthcare financing even in countries with established prepaid financing of healthcare. However, out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) may have undesirable effects from an equity perspective. In this study, we analyse the distributive effects of OOPP in Austria based on cross-sectional information from the ...
Alice Sanwald, Engelbert Theurl
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Out-of-pocket health expenditure as a fraction of capacity-to-pay, and catastrophic health expenditure.

, 2022
ctp = capacity-to-pay, oop = out-of-pocket payment.
Khurshid Alam (704442), Taslima Rahman (12936914), Dominic Gasbarro (12936917)   +2 more
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Data Quality of Out-Of-Pocket Payment on Institutional Delivery in India

SSM - Health Systems, 2023
Abstract Estimates of out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on health care are increasingly used in research and policy. In India, estimates of OOP payment are usually derived from health surveys carried out by the National Sample Survey (NSS).
Sanjay K. Mohanty, Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, Santosh Kumar Sharma, Sowmya Ramesh, Priyanka Gautam, Suraj Maiti, Saritha Nair, S.K. Singh   +7 more
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Out-of-pocket expenditures for primary health care in Tajikistan : a time-trend analysis [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Aligned with the international call for universal coverage of affordable and quality health care, the government of Tajikistan is undertaking reforms of its health system aiming amongst others at reducing the out-of-pocket expenditures (OPE ...
Gulyamova, Z. M., Sharipov, S., Schwarz, J., Zulfiya M Gulyamova, Wyss, K., Joëlle Schwarz, Kaspar Wyss, Soleh Sharipov   +7 more
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Out-of-Pocket and Informal Payment Before and After the Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Evidence from Hospitals Located in Kurdistan, Iran [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background One of the objectives of the health transformation plan (HTP) in Iran is to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for inpatient services and eradicate informal payments.
Bakhtiar Piroozi, Arash Rashidian, Ghobad Moradi, Amirhossein Takian, Hooman Ghasri, Tayyeb Ghadimi   +5 more
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Household out-of-pocket payments for illness: Evidence from Vietnam [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2006
Abstract Background In Vietnam, illnesses create high out-of-pocket health care expenditures for households. In this study, the burden of illness in the Bavi district, Vietnam is measured based upon individual household health expenditures for communicable and non-communicable illnesses.
Nguyen Thi Bich Thuan, Curt Löfgren, Nguyễn Thị Kim Chúc, Urban Janlert, Lars Lindholm   +4 more
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Is there an association between out-of-pocket hospital costs, quality and care outcomes? A systematic review of contemporary evidence

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Out of pocket (OOP) costs vary substantially by health condition, procedure, provider, and service location. Evidence of whether this variation is associated with indicators of healthcare quality and/or health outcomes is lacking.
Ramya Walsan, Rebecca J. Mitchell, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna Westbrook, Peter Hibbert, Virginia Mumford, Reema Harrison   +6 more
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Health reform and out-of-pocket payments: lessons from China [PDF]

Health Policy and Planning, 2013
China's ongoing new health reform aims to reduce individual out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare services. The aim of this article is to analyse the impact of this reform and to draw policy implications.Data are retrieved from the relevant government publications. Polynomial regression models are used to predict future health expenditures.
Lufa, Zhang, Nan, Liu
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How do inpatients’ costs, length of stay, and quality of care vary across age groups after a new case-based payment reform in China? An interrupted time series analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Context A patient classification-based payment system called diagnosis-intervention packet (DIP) was piloted in a large city in southeast China in 2018.
Ya-jing Chen, Xin-yu Zhang, Xue Tang, Jia-qi Yan, Meng-cen Qian, Xiao-hua Ying   +5 more
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