Catastrophic health care expenditure in Myanmar: policy implications in leading progress towards universal health coverage

Effective Coverage as a New Metric for Monitoring Progress towards Universal Health Coverage

Catastrophic health expenditure in an urban city: seven years after universal coverage policy in Thailand.

Abstract. This study explored the burden of household out-of-pocket health expenditure on urban inhabitants with different socio-economic status and health insurance schemes in Nakhon Sawan Municipality. This study employed a cross sectional survey by using a structured questionnaire. Health personnel from six primary care units interviewed a representative of the sampled households. Sampled ho...

The Place of Health Insurance in Reducing Catastrophic Health Expenditure

This paper was aimed to investigate the mixed empirical results on the effect of health insurance in reducing the risk of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). We investigated a wide range of factors affecting the risk of CHE among patients admitted to hospitals in Tehran. We categorized hospitals into five groups from private hospitals to charity ones. The data used herein was extracted from ...

Designing health financing policy towards universal coverage.

a Department of Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Guy Carrin (e-mail:[email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.046664 How health systems are financed largely determines whether people can obtain needed health care and whether they suffer financial hardship as a result of obtaining care. Both design and implementation...

Does progress towards universal health coverage improve population health?

Many commentators, including WHO, have advocated progress towards universal health coverage on the grounds that it leads to improvements in population health. In this report we review the most robust cross-country empirical evidence on the links between expansions in coverage and population health outcomes, with a focus on the health effects of extended risk pooling and prepayment as key indica...