Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: empirical evidence from 15 African countries

Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: empirical evidence from 15 African countries.

OBJECTIVE To explore factors associated with household coping behaviours in the face of health expenditures in 15 African countries and provide evidence for policy-makers in designing financial health protection mechanisms. METHODS A series of logit regressions were performed to explore factors correlating with a greater likelihood of selling assets, borrowing or both to finance health care. ...

Household out-of-pocket payments for illness: Evidence from Vietnam

BACKGROUND In Vietnam, illnesses create high out-of-pocket health care expenditures for households. In this study, the burden of illness in the Bavi district, Vietnam is measured based upon individual household health expenditures for communicable and non-communicable illnesses. The focus of the paper is on the relative effect of different illnesses on the total economic burden of health care o...

Health reform and out-of-pocket payments: lessons from China.

OBJECTIVE China's ongoing new health reform aims to reduce individual out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for healthcare services. The aim of this article is to analyse the impact of this reform and to draw policy implications. METHODS Data are retrieved from the relevant government publications. Polynomial regression models are used to predict future health expenditures. An extensive sensitivity an...

iranian households’ payments on food and health out-of-pocket expenditures: evidence of inequality

background : inequality in households’ payments on food and health expenditures presents the accessibility and utili-zation patterns between them. this study investigated the iranian rural and urban households’ inequality in payments on food and out-of-pocket health expenditures from 1998 to 2012. methods : this descriptive study was conducted through the analysis of iranian statistics centre d...

Coping with out-of-pocket Health Payments: Applications of Engel Curves and Two-Part Models in Six African Countries DISCUSSION PAPER