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Protecting households from catastrophic health spending.
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It is suggested that 150 million people globally suffer financial catastrophe annually because they pay for health services, and there is no strong evidence that social health insurance systems offer better or worse protection than tax-based systems do.Abstract:
Many countries rely heavily on patients’ out-of-pocket payments to providers to finance their health care systems. This prevents some people from seeking care and results in financial catastrophe a...read more
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Closing the gap in a generation: health equity through action on the social determinants of health
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Analyzing health equity using household survey data : a guide to techniques and their implementation
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Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis.
TL;DR: People, particularly in poor households, can be protected from catastrophic health expenditures by reducing a health system's reliance on out-of-pocket payments and providing more financial risk protection.
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Catastrophe and impoverishment in paying for health care: with applications to Vietnam 1993–1998
TL;DR: Two threshold approaches to measuring the fairness of health care payments are presented, one requiring that payments do not exceed a pre-specified proportion of pre-payment income, the other that they do not drive households into poverty, and the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophe' payments were reduced and became less concentrated among the poor.
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Illness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy
TL;DR: For example, this article surveyed 1,771 personal bankruptcy filers in five federal courts and subsequently completed in-depth interviews with 931 of them, finding that medical debtors were 42 percent more likely than other debtors to experience lapses in coverage.
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Understanding the impact of eliminating user fees: utilization and catastrophic health expenditures in Uganda.
Ke Xu,David B. Evans,Patrick Kadama,Juliet Nabyonga,Peter Ogwang Ogwal,Pamela Nabukhonzo,Ana Mylena Aguilar +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the impact of user fees on health service utilization and catastrophic health expenditures using data from National Household Surveys undertaken in 1997, 2000 and 2003, and found that the utilization among the poor increased much more rapidly after the abolition of fees than beforehand.
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Catastrophic household expenditure for health care in a low-income society: a study from Nouna District, Burkina Faso
TL;DR: It is concluded that the poorest members of the community incurred catastrophic health expenses, and this has important policy implications and can be used to ensure better access to health services and a higher degree of financial protection for low-income groups against the economic impact of illness.
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