BACKGROUND National health accounts provide useful information to understand the functioning of a health financing system. This article attempts to present a profile of the health system financing in Malawi using data from NHA. It specifically attempts to document the health financing situation in the country and proposes recommendations relevant for developing a comprehensive health financing ...

The paper attempts to describe catastrophic health spending and its impact to poverty in the Philippine setting. It focuses on the role of out-of-pocket payments for health care as a springboard in the analysis of measuring the magnitude and analyzing the extent of damage of catastrophic health expenditures. It also explores the scope and trends of these spending by different socioeconomic indi...

S S t t t t t u u u u u d d d d d ies ies ies ies ies Objectives: Previous studies have documented that overweight and obese adults have substantially higher medical care expenditures than adults of normal weight, but there is little comparable data for children or adolescents. This study examines medical care expenditure and utilization patterns in a sample of adolescents in North Carolina enr...

AIM To investigate, describe and classify main health policies and reform activities within the healthcare system undertaken over the past twenty years in R. Macedonia. METHODS Desk research was conducted on scientific literature and relevant documentation (in English and Macedonian) about healthcare reforms. Relevant documents available at the Ministry of Health, Health Insurance Fund, World...

Fieldwork conducted in Kpelle village in north-central Liberia revealed that health-care expenses constitute a major part of domestic spending. The actual transactions for major health-care expenditures are handled by men, typically using income that jointly belongs to the couple in addition to the husband's personal income. Women are likely to spend their personal incomes on minor health expe...

BACKGROUND China's health system reform launched in early 2000s has achieved better coverage of health insurance and significantly increased the use of healthcare for vast majority of Chinese population. This study was to examine changes in the structure of total health expenditures in China in 2000-2011, and to investigate the financial burden of healthcare placed on its population, particular...

BACKGROUND Government spending on health from domestic sources is an important indicator of a government's commitment to the health of its people, and is essential for the sustainability of health programmes. We aimed to systematically analyse all data sources available for government spending on health in developing countries; describe trends in public financing of health; and test the extent ...

Background: In all countries, health expenditures are a main part of government expenditure, and governments try to find policies and strategies to reduce this expenditure. Overall expenditure index has been raised 30 times during the past 20 years in Iran, while in the health sector, the growth in health expenditures index has been 71 times. The present study aimed at examining health care exp...

OBJECTIVE: The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act required health plans to provide mental health and substance use disorder (MH/SUD) benefits on par with medical benefits beginning in 2010. Previous research found that parity significantly lowered average out-of-pocket (OOP) spending on MH/SUD treatment of children. No evidence is available on how par...

the purpose of this paper is to examine and evaluate the effects of government intervention on the iranian economy over the last few decades. it is shown that public expenditures affect the value added of each economic sector not only simultaneously, but lagged over several periods. regression results show that the value added from the agricultural sector has never been affected by government e...