This study estimates progressivity of out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments and their determinants using South African Income Expenditure Surveys. Concentration is decomposed to examine the effec...

Increasing accessibility and affordability of healthcare services has been considered as an important policy objective since the beginning of 1980s in Iran. However, current 60- 70% health care out-of-pocket payments create a barrier to an equal access to quality health services, especially in terms of new medicines which affects equity issues and "health" in Iran. Currently, health insurance o...

Background Access to appropriate and affordable healthcare is needed to achieve better health outcomes in Africa. However, access to healthcare remains low, especially among the poor. In Zambia, poor access exists despite the policy by the government to remove user fees in all primary healthcare facilities in the public sector. The paper has two main objectives: (i) to examine the factors assoc...

Increasing accessibility and affordability of healthcare services has been considered as an important policy objective since the beginning of 1980s in Iran. However, current 60- 70% health care out-of-pocket payments create a barrier to an equal access to quality health services, especially in terms of new medicines which affects equity issues and "health" in Iran. Currently, health insurance o...

Background. The financial effect of households’ out-of-pocket payments (OOP) on access and use health systems has been extensively studied in the literature, especially emerging or developing countries. However, it subject little research European countries, is almost nonexistent after crisis 2008. aim work to analyze incidence intensity catastrophism derived from Spanish associated with care d...

Health care finance in developing and low income countries is still predominantly based on out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, and the lack of prepayment mechanisms like insurance. In the absence of insurance, an illness not only reduces welfare directly, it also increases the risk of impoverishment due to high treatment expenditures. It is now widely acknowledged that health care expenditures can dr...