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Insured yet vulnerable: out-of-pocket payments and India's poor [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2011 Protecting households from high out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health care is an important health system goal. High OOP payments can push households into poverty and make them vulnerable to catastrophic health expenditures. This study, based in India, aims to: (a) estimate OOP payments for health and related impoverishment across economic groups; (b)
Renu, Shahrawat, Krishna D, Rao
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Impact of Public Health Insurance on Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures of the Near-Poor in Vietnam
Health Services Insights, 2021 Out-of-pocket payment is one of the indicators measuring the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. According to the World Health Organization, for countries from the Asia Pacific Region, out-of-pocket payments should not exceed 30%-40% of total ...
Nguyen Duc Thanh +4 more
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Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2022 Background: Comparable estimates of household health spending and out-of-pocket (OOP) payment on health care in India are a daunting task. Often these estimates are provided for specific services such as maternal care, type of disease, hospitalisation ...
Sanjay K. Mohanty +3 more
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Trends in out-of-pocket payments for health care in Kyrgyzstan, 2001-2007 [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2010 Within the countries of the former Soviet Union, the Kyrgyz Republic has been a pioneer in reforming the system of health care finance. Since the introduction of its compulsory health insurance fund in 1997, the country has gradually moved from subsidizing the supply of services to subsidizing the purchase of services through the 'single payer' of the ...
Falkingham, Jane +2 more
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Out-of-Pocket Patient Payments for Public Health Care Services in Bulgaria [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2015 1 Department of Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria, 2 Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3 Topinstitute Evidence-Based Education Research ...
Atanasova, Elka +2 more
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Strategies for reducing out of pocket payments in the health system: a scoping review [PDF]
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2021 AbstractBackgroundDirect out-of-pocket payments (OOP) are among the most important financing mechanisms in many health systems, especially in developing countries, adversely affecting equality and leading vulnerable groups to poverty. Therefore, this scoping review study was conducted to identify the strategies involving OOP reduction in health systems.
Faride Sadat Jalali +2 more
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Mathematics, 2021 The financial catastrophe resulting from the out-of-pocket payments necessary to access and use healthcare systems has been widely studied in the literature. The aim of this work is to predict the impact of the financial catastrophe a household will face
Maria-Carmen García-Centeno +2 more
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Generalized estimation equation model for out-of-pocket payment.
, 2019 Generalized estimation equation model for out-of-pocket payment.
Patrick O. Asuming (6312581) +7 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2023 Background As the main cause of cancer death, lung cancer imposes seriously health and economic burdens on individuals, families, and the health system. In China, there is no national study analyzing the hospitalization expenditures of different payment ...
Hanxu Hu +8 more
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Out of pocket payments and access to NCD medication in two regions in Albania
PLOS ONE, 2022 Objective The financial burden from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is a threat worldwide, alleviated only when good social protection schemes are in place. Albeit the Government in Albania has committed to Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC), Out-of-Pockets (OOPs) persist.
Jonila Gabrani +2 more
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