The paper attempts to describe catastrophic health spending and its impact to poverty in the Philippine setting. It focuses on the role of out-of-pocket payments for health care as a springboard in the analysis of measuring the magnitude and analyzing the extent of damage of catastrophic health expenditures. It also explores the scope and trends of these spending by different socioeconomic indi...

there are many reasons for the health inequities that we see around the world today. public policy and the way society organises its affairs affects the economic, social and physical factors that influence the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age - the social determinants of health. tackling health inequities is a political issue that requires leadership, political cour...

there currently is lack of knowledge about hiv testing practices in iran. the purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the prevalence of self-reported hiv testing and its associated factors among women.this cross-sectional study was conducted in sanandaj city, located in the west of iran, in 2012. data were collected using self-administered questionnaire including demographics characteristic...

BACKGROUND This study will provide detailed specification of those variables and determinants of unpredictable health expenditure in Iran, and the requirements to reduce extensive effects of the factors affecting households' payments for health and other goods and services inappropriately. METHOD This study aims to identify measures of fair financing of health services and determinants of fai...

Fieldwork conducted in Kpelle village in north-central Liberia revealed that health-care expenses constitute a major part of domestic spending. The actual transactions for major health-care expenditures are handled by men, typically using income that jointly belongs to the couple in addition to the husband's personal income. Women are likely to spend their personal incomes on minor health expe...

BACKGROUND China's health system reform launched in early 2000s has achieved better coverage of health insurance and significantly increased the use of healthcare for vast majority of Chinese population. This study was to examine changes in the structure of total health expenditures in China in 2000-2011, and to investigate the financial burden of healthcare placed on its population, particular...

OBJECTIVE Few studies have examined the link between health system strength and important public health outcomes across nations. We examined the association between health system indicators and mortality rates. METHODS We used mixed effects linear regression models to investigate the strength of association between outcome and explanatory variables, while accounting for geographic clustering ...

This study aims to determine socioeconomic, demographic, and household characteristics that affect Turkish catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). Data gathered by TurkStat belonging 40,033 households for the years 2009-2012 were used in analysis. In study, CHE was defined as expenditures 40% (or above) greater than capacity pay of household. CHAID analysis affecting CHE. According analysis; inc...

The present paper attempts to find out the major determining factors of catastrophic payment in health care, and the impact of such expenditure on household economic status. A survey of 3150 households in West Bengal, India, was analyzed using multivariate logistic regression models to identify factors associated with catastrophic health expenditures, defined as household spending on health gre...

    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...