BACKGROUND At the beginning of 2007, health care reforms were implemented in Hungary in order to decrease public expenditure on health care. Reforms involved the increase of co-payments for pharmaceuticals and the introduction of co-payments for health care services. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to examine the progressivity of household expenditure on health care during the reform...

This paper investigates the effect of health-related expenditure on household welfare in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, all of which have undertaken major health sector reform. Two methodologies are used: (i) the incidence and intensity of 'catastrophic' health care expenditure, and (ii) the effect of out-of-pocket payments on poverty headcount and poverty gap m...

Abstract 
 Background: Pakistan is a developing country of South Asia and currently facing many challenges public health especially maternal one the emerging issues. There limited empirical evidence on out pocket expenditure (OOPE) selection private healthcare facility. This area was overlooked in research current study has tried to investigate impact OOPE hospital for delivery postnatal c...

Background Despite improvements in many health indicators, providing access to affordable healthcare remains a considerable challenge Bangladesh. Financing incidence analysis will enable an evaluation of how well the system performs achieve equity financing. The objective this study is assess burden out-of-pocket (OOP) cost on different socio-economic groups by assessing financing because OOP ...

Background: Catastrophic health expenditure occurs when the burden of Out-of-pocket has reached a certain level that household must forego on other basic needs life to meet expenses its member(s) household. Worldwide, over 44 million households suffer annually from financial catastrophe. This study intends determine prevalence catastrophic amongst rural and urban communities in Ekiti, Nigeria. ...

background one common challenge to social systems is achieving equity in financial contributions and preventing financial loss. because of the large and unpredictable nature of some costs, achieving this goal in the health system presents important and unique problems. the present study investigated the household financial contributions (hfcs) to the health system.   methods the study investiga...

Using data from 60 round of the National Sample Survey, this study attempts to measure the incidence and intensity of “catastrophic” maternal health care expenditure and examines its socio-economic correlates in urban and rural areas separately. Additionally, it measures the effect of maternal health care expenditure on poverty incidence and examines the factors associated with such impoverishm...

There is considerable interest in complementary medicine (CM) and the usage of various alternative therapies is reportedly at an all-time high in the West. Bensoussan stated that each year, 57% of Australians were using CM with an estimated expenditure of A$621 million spent on complementary medicines (products) and A$309 million on CM practitioners. In the USA, a similar trend was reported by ...