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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"out-of-pocket"”.
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An investigation into out of pocket health expenditure in India
This study critically analyses out of pocket health expenditure (OOPHE) in India, and provides policy suggestions that can enhance the Indian healthcare sector. Using nationally representative household data (2011-12) collected by the National Sample Survey Organization, three research areas have …
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Out of pocket payment for assisted reproductive techniques: How to households recover?
Introduction: The cost of ART remains amongst the most prevalent barriers to treatment, especially in resource limited countries where many people are poor and inadequately covered by private and public health insurances. This study aims to assess the financial consequences of out of pocket payment …
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Progressivity and determinants of out-of-pocket health care financing in Zambia
… evidence on the progressivity and determinants of OOP payments. This information is important for policy making regarding health care financing.
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Out-Of-Pocket Health Care Spending: Effects Of Partner Spending On Own Spending
… Delayed or foregone medical care because of cost is an ever-present possibility for most households and a current concern for many households in the United States. A small body of literature exists concerning the relationship between household out-of-pocket spending and household-member …
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Financial Risk Protection, Decomposition and Inequality Analysis of Household Out-of-Pocket Health Payments
… equity trends in financing health care through out-of-pocket payments (OOP) using South African Income and Expenditure Surveys for the periods 1995, 2000, 2005-06 and 2010-11. South Africa is interesting to examine for a variety of reasons. In 1994, South Africa removed user charges at public …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… treatment is sought appropriately, utilization of professional health care services amongst people suffering from malaria illness generally continues to be low in Zambia. With a lack of recent empirical evidence following several advances in Zambia’s campaign against malaria, we are uncertain of …
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Determinants of health care seeking patterns and out-of-pocket expenditure for malaria treatment in Zambia
… treatment is sought appropriately, utilization of professional health care services amongst people suffering from malaria illness generally continues to be low in Zambia. With a lack of recent empirical evidence following several advances in Zambia’s campaign against malaria, we are uncertain of …
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Analysis of Out-of-Pocket Expenditures of Oral Oncologics for Tennessee Recipients of Medicare Part D
… are few studies that examine patients' costs of oral oncology drugs from Medicare Part D plan providers. These drugs can impose a financial burden to beneficiaries, and, due to their cost, place beneficiaries in the coverage gap in a short period of time. In addition to examining costs, there …
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Out-of-pocket payments, health care access and utilisation in South-Eastern Nigeria : a gender perspective
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments have severe consequences for health care access and utilisation and are especially catastrophic for the poor. Although women comprise the majority of the poor in Nigeria and globally, the implications of OOP payments for health care access from a gender perspective have …
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Financial protection in Uganda's health system catastrophic and impoverishment effects of out-of-pocket health care payments
This study assesses the impact of out-of-pocket payments for health care on the welfare of households in Uganda. Using data from the nationally representative Uganda National Household Survey 2009/10, the study assesses the extent and intensity of catastrophic out-of-pocket health care payments …
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Financial health protection in Swaziland: an assessment of financial catastrophe and impoverishment from out-of-pocket payments
… momentum globally, the need for assessing levels of financial health protection in countries, particularity the developing world, has increasingly become important. Swaziland's health financing system performance in terms of ensuring financial health protection is not clearly understood. This …
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Out-of-pocket payment for assisted reproductive techniques in the public health sector in South Africa - how do households cope?
In South Africa assisted reproductive techniques (ART) are poorly covered by health insurances or government funding thereby often inflicting out-of-pocket payment (OPP) on patients. This can create treatment barriers or high financial burdens for households, with unknown consequences of the …
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The effort to cut out-of-pocket medical expenses and the political constraints : examples from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in China
This master thesis examines the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on rural residents' out-of-pocket medical expenses (OOP) in China. The thesis first uses quantitative methods to identify the statistical relationships between NCMS and rural OOP and finds that enrolling in NCMS is …
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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
… 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 measure the effect of the VHI programme on …
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A systematic review of the assessment of out-of-pocket payment removal policies in reducing the economic burden caused by direct and indirect costs of HIV service utilization in South Africa
… to some policy introductions such as the removal of out-of-pocket payments (OOPs) in the form of user fees at point of care in primary health facilities in South Africa. The cost of healthcare for patients is not only a barrier to access and utilisation but can also lead to catastrophic spending …
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Sensitivity of measuring the progress in financial risk protection to varied survey instruments: A case study of Ghana
… the difficulty in obtaining reliable estimates of private expenditure on health often undermine the credibility of health accounts, limit the tracking of financial resources, and make international comparisons extremely difficult. This study assessed the sensitivity of estimates of out-of-pocket …
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Socio-economic status and household catastrophic health expenditure in urban Argentina
… is to explore the socioeconomic determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure in Argentina in order to be able to capture the distribution of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) among health coverage. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on the Household Expenditure …
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Three Essays in Health Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays addressing different topics in health economics. The first essay investigates the impact of the great recession on hospital capital investment and how hospitals respond to offset the recession effect. The great recession may have made it difficult for …
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The Need, Value and Affordability of First-line Treatments for Hip and Knee Osteoarthritis in Alberta
… treatments are funded with private insurance or out-of-pocket which reduces access. We sought to inform the policy-making process in Alberta by addressing three objectives: 1) Describe “usual care” (UC) patterns of education, exercise, weight management, pain medication and other nonsurgical …
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