terms of inclusion of the poor, hospital utilization, and expenditure. Age-matched insured and uninsured women were compared … Fund, and thus impact on hospital utilization and expenditure, was minimal. This may relate to a lack of awareness of …

impact that healthcare costs have on household living standards in a high-income country with a long established universal … health care system. We undertook this analysis using a longitudinal, nationally representative dataset – the Household Income … defined as spending 10% or more of household income on healthcare. Results: Average total household expenditure on healthcare …

Out-of-pocket payments for healthcare not only limit access to healthcare but also negatively affect household welfare … households spend over 10% of their total household consumption expenditure paying out-of-pocket for health care. The mean excess …