Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the percentage households with disabled children aged 0–8 years who had faced catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) due costs these in Iran. Methods This cross-sectional carried out on 2000 five provinces Iran 2020. Data were collected using World Health Survey questionnaire and face-to-face interview. Determinants CHE identified logistic reg...

Since 1995 Belgian sickness funds are partially financed through a risk adjustment system and are held partially financially responsible for the difference between their actual and their risk-adjusted expenditures. However, they did not get the necessary instruments for exerting a real influence on expenditures and the health insurance market has not been opened for new entrants. At the same ti...

introduction: hospital managers are always concerned about provision and careful control of financial resources. in this study the deductions applied by khadamat-e-darman insurance company on patients' bills at university hospitals affiliated to isfahan university of medical sciences were investigated. methods: in this cross–sectional study, data were collected in a checklist consisting of nine...

in the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas. but little is known about oncologists' viewpoints in our country regarding their ethical problems in this mention. we aimed to clarify the ethical dilemmas which iranian oncologists may f...

    Background: One of the main goals of health systems is to protect people against financial risks associated with diseases that can be catastrophic for patients. In 2014, Health Sector Evolution Plan (HSEP) was implemented in Iran; one of the objectives of HSEP was to reduce out-of-pocket payments and provide more financial protection for people. Therefore, the present study a...

BACKGROUND Second opinion is a treatment ratification tool that may critically influence diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Second opinions constitute one of the largest expenditures of the supplementary health insurance programs provided by the Israeli health funds. The scarcity of data on physicians' attitudes toward second opinion motivated this study to explore those attitudes within the ...

The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) contains a wealth of information about the people whose care is financed by the program. This article examines their satisfaction with medical care received and explores the relationship of these attitudes with the characteristics of subgroups of the enrolled population. Satisfaction with medical care among Medicare beneficiaries is found to be gen...

background national/social health insurance schemes have increasingly been seen in many low- and middle-income countries (lmics) as a vehicle to universal health coverage (uhc) and a viable alternative funding mechanism for the health sector. several countries, including ghana, have thus introduced and implemented mandatory national health insurance schemes (nhis) as part of reform efforts towa...