BACKGROUND Equity and justice in healthcare payment form an integral part of health policy and planning. In the majority of low and middle-income countries (LMICs), healthcare inequalities are further aggravated by Out of Pocket Expenditure (OOPE). This paper examines the pattern of health equity and regional disparities in healthcare spending among Indian states by applying Andersen's behaviou...

BACKGROUND Modern drug therapy accounts for a major share of health expenditure and challenges public provider resources. The objective of our study was to compare drug expenditure trends for ten major drug classes over 16 years at Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS), the 2(nd) largest healthcare organization in Israel. METHODS A retrospective analysis of drug expenditure per HMO beneficiary be...

Health insecurity has emerged as a major concern among health policy-makers particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It includes the inability to secure adequate healthcare today and the risk of being unable to do so in the future as well as impoverishing healthcare expenditure. The increasing health insecurity among 150 million of the world's poor has moved social protection i...

Both expenditure on healthcare and the functioning of entire system in Poland stir up considerable controversy are often discussed media. Hospital debts, low quality services, availability specialist medical services form basis for discussion effectiveness system. Statistical data also bleak. Total health 2019 amounted to 6.3% GDP (estimated expenditure), whereas average OECD countries was 8.8%...

The study examines the convergence patterns of real healthcare expenditure per capita (RHEPC) for 43 countries sub-Saharan African (SSA) from period 2000 and 2017. Conventional absolute conditional β-convergence models are first applied. Several factors such as income, democracy, urbanisation ageing population found to significantly affect relative RHEPC (RRHEPC) within model. speed RRHEPC is h...

BACKGROUND Health literacy presents an enormous challenge in the delivery of effective healthcare and quality outcomes. We evaluated the impact of low health literacy (LHL) on healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditure. METHODS Database analysis used Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) from 2005-2008 which provides nationally representative estimates of healthcare utilization and e...