Children with Special Health Care Needs: Impact of Health Care Expenditures on Family Financial Burden

Utilization and Expenditures for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Financial Burden of Health Care Expenditures: Turkey

In this study, we examine whether and to what extent the health insurance system in Turkey provided adequate protection against high out of pocket expenditures in the period prior to "The Health Transformation Programme". Furthermore, we examine the distribution of out of pocket expenditures by demographic characteristics, poverty status, health service type, access to health care and self-repo...

A national profile of health care utilization and expenditures for children with special health care needs.

OBJECTIVES To provide the first nationally representative data on total health care expenses, out-of-pocket health care expenses, and information on the extent to which out-of-pocket expenses are financially burdensome for families of children with special health care needs (CSHCN). To also compare utilization and expenditure patterns for children with and without special health care needs. D...

Financial burden in families of children with special health care needs: variability among states.

OBJECTIVE The main objective of this study was to examine variability among states for 3 indicators of the family financial burden related to caring for children with special health care needs. METHODS Data were from a 2001 national survey of households with children (<18 years of age) with special health care needs, with a representative sample from each state. The outcomes examined included...

Children with special health care needs.