Measuring financial protection against catastrophic health expenditures: methodological challenges for global monitoring
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Iranian Household Financial Protection against Catastrophic Health Care Expenditures
BACKGROUND Protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. In this regard, Iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health expenditure to one percent. Hence, this study aimed to measure percentage of Iranian households exposed to catastrophic health expenditures and to...
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background: protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. in this regard, iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health expenditure to one percent. hence, this study aimed to measure percentage of iranian households exposed to catastrophic health expenditures and t...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-018-0749-5