Screening for Breast Cancer: Time, Travel, and Out-of-Pocket Expenses
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Screening for breast cancer: time, travel, and out-of-pocket expenses.
BACKGROUND We estimated the personal costs to women found to have a breast problem (either breast cancer or benign breast disease) in terms of time spent, miles traveled, and cash payments made for detection, diagnosis, initial treatment, and follow-up. METHODS We analyzed data from personal interviews with 465 women from four communities in Florida. These women were randomly selected from th...
متن کاملMedical Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Poverty, and the Uninsured∗
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance argued that the current official U.S. poverty measure should be updated to capture changes in the population’s healthcare costs and needs; families with sufficiently high medical out-ofpocket (MOOP) expenditures may be ‘poor’ even though they are not counted as such. This research offers three distinct advances toward...
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BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket expenses, medical and non-medical, have an impoverishing effect on the family. OBJECTIVE Determine non-medical out-of-pocket expenses incurred during out-patient attendance for primary care services. METHODS A descriptive survey was undertaken at a rural medical college using interviewer-administered questionnaire to parents of children <6 years over a period of 6 w...
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PURPOSE Cancer patients carry rising burdens of health care-related out-of-pocket expenses, and a growing number of patients are considered "underinsured." Our objective was to describe experiences of insured cancer patients requesting copayment assistance and to describe the impact of health care expenses on well-being and treatment. METHODS We conducted baseline and follow-up surveys regard...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/91.8.702