BACKGROUND Better cardiovascular health is associated with lower cardiovascular disease risk. METHODS AND RESULTS We determined the association between cardiovascular health and healthcare utilization and expenditures in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study. We included 6262 participants ≥65 years with Medicare fee-for-service coverage for the year after...

BACKGROUND Although persons with disabilities need access to comprehensive and consistent healthcare services, a significant number of the poor with disabilities do not receive Medical-Aid due to the conditions of eligibility. We aimed to compare the financial burden of healthcare services between two groups of poor persons with disabilities: those not enrolled in Medical-Aid and Medical-Aid en...

Abstract Background The coexistence of chronic diseases among people with stroke is common. However, little known about the extent incremental healthcare expenditures associated having physically and psychologically conditions survivors. Methods We used nationally representative data from China Health Nutrition Survey, including 36,076 participants enrolled as our analytic cohort ten years foll...

Japan’s total fertility rate is very low (1.29 in 2003), and Japanese life expectancy is among the highest (78.4 years for males and 85.3 years for females at birth in 2003) in developed countries. Consequently, the population is aging rapidly, which has had a heavy impact on welfare state reform in Japan. In European healthcare reforms, early reforms in the 1980s emphasized cost containment; t...

This article presents a comparative analysis of socio-economic disparities in relation to treatment-seeking strategies and healthcare expenditures in poor neighbourhoods within larger health systems in four cities in India, Indonesia and Thailand. About 200 households in New Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Jogjakarta and Phitsanulok were repeatedly interviewed over 12 months to relate health problems with ...

In the United States, healthcare expenditures have continued to rise at alarming rates despite numerous strategies to contain costs. One area of focus that is underappreciated is doctor-patient communication about expectations of treatment. Studies have shown that clinicians' misperceptions of assumptions about patients' expectations are an essential component to our nation's healthcare overuse...

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...

Despite progressive universal drug coverage and pharmaceutical policies found in other countries, Canada remains the only developed nation with a publicly funded healthcare system that does not include universal coverage for prescription drugs. In the absence of a national pharmacare plan, a province may choose to cover a specific sub-population for certain drugs. Altho...

Introduction: Underdeveloped and developing countries are unable to provide essential healthcare all of their inhabitants, those who remain uninsured at a huge risk financial hardship. It’s never easy divide limited resources. Method: This study attempts examine that, If urban poors, vulnerable section the society is protected against catastrophic health expenditure. Is there any deepening pove...

BACKGROUND During the last two decades, the trend of out-of-pocket payments (OOP) for health services by Iranian households has been a matter of concern and it has exposed a significant proportion of them to catastrophic and impoverishing health expenditures. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate three objectives: First, the mean of out-of-pocket payments among Iranian households ...