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Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in Australia : trends, inequalities and the impact on household living standards in a high-income country with a universal health care system
Callander, Emily J.; Fox, Haylee; Lindsay, Daniel - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 10, pp. 1-8
Background: Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person’s ability to work and imparting costs associated with receiving medical treatment. Universal health care is a means of protecting against the impoverishing impact of high healthcare costs. This study...
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Effect of reducing cost sharing for outpatient care on children's inpatient services in Japan
Kato, Hirotaka; Goto, Rei - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 28, pp. 1-10
Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and … health policy. It may affect the utilization of different services, but is yet to be well understood. Objective: This paper …
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Budgeting challenges on the path towards universal health coverage: the case of Benin
Paul, Elisabeth; Sambiéni, N’koué Emmanuel; Wangbe, … - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 28, pp. 1-8
Background: In its pursuance of universal health coverage (UHC), the government of Benin is piloting a project of mandatory social insurance for health entitled "ARCH". Methods: We analysed budget data and ARCH documents, and conducted four observation missions in Benin between March 2018 and...
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Hospital unit costs in Jordan : insights from a country facing competing health demands and striving for universal health coverage
Hammad, Eman A.; Alabbadi, Ibrahim; Taissir, Fardos; … - In: Health economics review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9
mainly on year of employment. Nonetheless, the unit costs varied depending on the service utilization, type of service and …
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How much do government and households spend on an episode of hospitalisation in India? : a comparison for public and private hospitals in Chhattisgarh state
Garg, Samir; Tripathi, Narayan; Ranjan, Alok; Bebarta, … - In: Health economics review 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
Background: Improvements in the financing of healthcare services are important for developing countries like India to make progress towards universal health coverage. Inpatient-care contributes to a big share of total health expenditure in India. India has a mixed health-system with a sizeable...
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Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic health spending on maternal care in public and private health centres in India : a comparative study of pre and post national health miss...
Mohanty, Sanjay; Kastor, Anshul - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 31, pp. 1-15
Background: The National Health Mission (NHM), one of the largest publicly funded maternal health programs worldwide was initiated in 2005 to reduce maternal, neo-natal and infant mortality and out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) on maternal care in India. Though evidence suggests improvement in...
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Utilization of healthcare services and renewal of health insurance membership : evidence of adverse selection in Ghana
Duku, Stephen Kwasi Opoku; Asenso-Boadi, Francis; … - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 43, pp. 1-12
Background: Utilization of healthcare in Ghana’s novel National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been increasing … investigates the presence of adverse selection by assessing the effect of healthcare utilization and frequency of use on NHIS … renewal. Method: Routine enrolment and utilization data from 2008 to 2013 in two regions in Ghana was analyzed. Pearson Chi …
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National burden of the pharmaceutical cost of wet compresses and its cost predictors : nationwide cross-sectional study in Japan
Itoh, Hiroaki; Saito, Tomoyuki; Nojiri, Shuko; … - In: Health economics review 9 (2019) 20, pp. 1-7
Background: Although a high number of wet compresses are prescribed daily in medical institutions in Japan, our understanding of the national burden of the cost of wet compresses and the details regarding their prescription is far from complete. We investigated the national burden of the annual...
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Cost of a lymphedema treatment mandate : 10 years of experience in the Commonwealth of Virginia
Weiss, Robert - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 42, pp. 1-12
claims and utilization data and claims-based estimates of the premium impact of its lymphedema mandate. The average actual …
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Effects of capitation payment on utilization and claims expenditure under National Health Insurance Scheme : a cross-sectional study of three regions in Ghana
Andoh-Adjei, Francis-Xavier; Boudewijns, Bronke; … - In: Health economics review 8 (2018) 17, pp. 1-8
in the Ashanti region, in 2012 with a key objective of controlling utilization and related cost. This study sought to … analyse utilization and claims expenditure data before and after introduction of capitation payment policy to understand …-test control group design. We did trend analysis, comparing utilization and claims expenditure data from three administrative …
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