Introduction: Major part of health expenditure is paid directly by households in most of developing countries. This catastrophic expenditure is entailed on families. Assessing important determinants of Out Of Pocket Payment (OOP) is one of the key issues in health care finance. Methods: This study uses Iranian household income expenditure in 2005-2010 annually provided by statistical center of ...

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Objectives: Considering the growth of the elderly population and the need of the elderly for health services and the importance of supplementary insurance on improving the quality of life of the elderly households, this study aimed to investigate the effect of supplementary health insurance on out-of-pocket payments for elderly households in urban areas of Iran. Methods: this descriptive-analy...

Objectives Over the past few decades, Iran has faced rapid demographic changes, including a sharp decline in birth rates and increased life expectancy. This has led to an increase in the average age of the population and an increase in the percentage of the elderly people which is called “the phenomena of aging”. The occurrence of this phenomenon in Iran is rapidly increasing, and therefore the...

Introduction: A different factors influence family health care expenditures. This paper was aimed to determine these influential factors on the households in Yazd city(Iran). Methods: a total of 20000 questionnaires were designed, pretested, and used in the province of Yazd, Iran during the three months period of 2007 to collect data included household per- capita health care expenditures, insu...

The effect of equivalence scale on poverty line has been considered as a predetermined parameter in all previous studies about the estimation of poverty lines in Iran. As household’s members can benefit from economies of scale in consumption, the cost of reaching to a given level of welfare does not increase one to one in household scale. So the effect of household scale on poverty line as a pr...