Prevalence of Out-Of-Pocket Payments for Mammography Screening Among Recently Screened Women
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Out-of-Pocket Payments, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty Among Households in Nigeria 2010
Background There is high reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments as a means of financing health system in Nigeria. OOP health payments can make households face catastrophe and become impoverished. The study aims to examine the financial burden of OOP health payments among households in Nigeria. Methods Secondary data from the Harmonized Nigeria Living Standard Survey (HNLSS) of 2009/2...
متن کاملMammography Screening of Chinese Immigrant Women: Ever Screened Versus Never Screened.
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To compare the differences in mammogram completion rates over time between Chinese American women with and without a history of mammogram screening . DESIGN Secondary analysis of a randomized, controlled intervention study. SETTING Metropolitan areas of Portland, Oregon. SAMPLE 300 foreign-born Chinese immigrant women aged 40 years or older. Of these, 83 women (28%) had...
متن کاملInvestigating the Relationship between Misery Index and Patients' Out-of-pocket Payments in Iran's Health System
Background: One of the criteria for measuring the performance of governments and their survival is the degree of success in reducing and stabilizing the misery index. The misery index is obtained from the sum of inflation and unemployment. Inflation and unemployment are the most important factors affecting family's income. If the misery index is high, families will have less money to buy their ...
متن کاملHousehold out-of-pocket payments for illness: Evidence from Vietnam
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. The focus of the paper is on the relative effect of different illnesses on the total economic burden of health care o...
متن کاملReduced screening mammography among women with diabetes.
BACKGROUND Despite regular health care, preventive health issues may be neglected in patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes. Case-control studies in the United States have shown lower mammogram rates in women with diabetes; however, it is not known whether the presence of diabetes mellitus affects mammography use in a Canadian setting, where there is universal access to health care. ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Women's Health
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1540-9996,1931-843X
DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2018.6973