Objectives: Korea achieved universal population coverage through national health insurance in 1989. However, out-of-pocket payments (OOP) still accounted for 36% of total health expenditure in 2006. This paper aims to provide evidence for improving the benefit package through analyzing household financial burden. Methods: OOP and the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure were analysed us...

background: the national health accounts keep track of all healthcare related activities from the beginning (i.e. resource provision), to the end (i.e. service provision). this study was conducted to address following questions: how is the iranian health system funded? who distribute the funds? for what services are the funds spent on?, what service providers receive the funds? methods: the req...

Objective This study aimed to identify the major variables in the estimation of health expenditure in OECD member countries with the decision tree method and to categorize the member countries by health expenditure. Methods The study population comprised the 2014 data of the 35 OECD countries. In the study, health expenditure as a share of gross domestic product was the dependent variable whi...

The present paper attempts to modify definition of catastrophic out-of-pocket health expenditure by characterising it based on consumption of necessities. In literature, catastrophic expenditure is defined as that level of OOP health expenditure which exceeds some fixed proportion of household income or household’s capacity to pay. In the present paper, catastrophic health expenditure is define...

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket expenditure to pay for health services could result in financial catastrophe. The purpose of this study was to identify the incidence and determinants of catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Colombia. The underlying hypotheses are that low-income and non-insured population in Colombia, and households living in isolated and high level of rurality regions...

Introduction: The government of Nepal has been providing free dialysis for a lifetime to its citizen since 2016. Most the patients have spend from pocket meet their medical demands sustain life. This leads financial burden and may lead sale property. aim this was study look into different categories expenses done by in Bipanna nagarik HD program provided Nepal.Materials Methods: descriptive cro...

This section describes how I convert the cost sharing formula in Table 1 into actual monthly outof-pocket health expenditures in Table 2. Ideally, I would like to have access to information on actual out-of-pocket expenditures at the individual level (like Medical Expenditure Panel Survey in the US). In the absence of such data, I attempt to derive the same. Fortunately, I know the exact formul...