Abstract Background The prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) challenges the Chinese health system reform. Little is known for differences in catastrophic expenditure (CHE) between urban and rural households with NCD patients. This study aims to measure above quantify contribution each variable explaining urban-rural differences. Methods Unbalanced panel data were obtained from...

BACKGROUND Protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. In this regard, Iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health expenditure to one percent. Hence, this study aimed to measure percentage of Iranian households exposed to catastrophic health expenditures and to...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES To examine the household economic impact of an outbreak of chikungunya in terms of out-of-pocket health care expenditure and income foregone due to loss of productive time in Orissa, India. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted on 150 respondents, bread winners from the affected households of a village with maximum number of reported cases in the state, during A...

This paper investigates the effect of health-related expenditure on household welfare in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, all of which have undertaken major health sector reform. Two methodologies are used: (i) the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic' health care expenditure, and (ii) the effect of out-of-pocket payments on poverty headcount and poverty gap m...

Abstract Background The coexistence of chronic diseases among people with stroke is common. However, little known about the extent incremental healthcare expenditures associated having physically and psychologically conditions survivors. Methods We used nationally representative data from China Health Nutrition Survey, including 36,076 participants enrolled as our analytic cohort ten years foll...

OBJECTIVES The health transformation program was a recent reform in the health system of Iran that was implemented in early 2014. Some of the program's important goals were to improve the equity of payments and to reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) payments and catastrophic health expenditures (CHE). In this study, these goals were evaluated using a before-and-after analysis. METHODS Data on househol...

BACKGROUND Financial risk protection against the cost of unforeseen healthcare has gained global attention in recent years. Although Ghana implemented a nationwide health insurance scheme with a goal of reducing financial barriers to accessing healthcare and addressing impoverishing effects of out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare payments, there is a paucity of knowledge on the extent of financial ca...