India's health financing system is a cause of and an exacerbating factor in the challenges of health inequity, inadequate availability and reach, unequal access, and poor-quality and costly health-care services. Low per person spending on health and insufficient public expenditure result in one of the highest proportions of private out-of-pocket expenses in the world. Citizens receive low value...

background one of the main objectives of health systems is the financial protection against out-of-pocket (oop) health expenditures. oop health expenditures can lead to catastrophic payments, impoverishment or poverty among households. in iran, health sector evolution plan (hsep) has been implemented since 2014 in order to achieve universal health coverage and reduce the oop health expenditures...

This article provides an overview of current trends in health expenditures in 29 OECD countries and recent revisions of OECD health accounts. U.S. health expenditures are compared with those of other OECD countries. The interactions of cost-containment measures with changes in the public-private mix of financing and in the composition of health care spending are discussed.

PRIVATE CONSUMER expenditures for medical care amounted to an estimated $23.7 billion in 1963 or 7.3 percent more than in 1962. Thus, total consumer expenditures for health purposes are continuing to expand at about the same pace as in recent years. In 1962 the increase from the preceding year was 7.6 percent; in 1961, it was 5.4 percent, ; and in 1960, 6.7 percent. Private consumer expenditure...

background: protecting households against financial risks is one of objectives of any health system. in this regard, iran's fourth five year developmental plan act in its 90th article, articulated decreasing household's exposure to catastrophic health expenditure to one percent. hence, this study aimed to measure percentage of iranian households exposed to catastrophic health expenditures and t...

The private health sector in India is large and heterogeneous, and includes for-profit providers of varying capacity, informal providers such as drug sellers, and nongovernmental organization (NGO) providers (Gupta and Bollinger 2006). The proportion of wholly, privately run health care institutions1 in India has grown from about 8 percent at the country’s independence in 1947 to nearly 60 perc...

In California, personal health care expenditures are estimated to total more than $367 billion in 2016. Approximately 71 percent of these expenditures will be paid for with public funds (i.e., taxpayer dollars). This estimated contribution of public funds to health care expenditures is much higher than estimates that include only major health insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Se...

This article presents data on health care spending for the United States, covering expenditures for various types of medical services and products and their sources of funding from 1960 to 1994. Although these statistics for 1994 show the slowest growth in more than three decades, health spending continued to grow faster than the overall economy. The Federal Government continued to fund an incr...

Falling medical prices and slowing growth in private health insurance premiums diverted the spotlight from large-scale reform of the health care system in 1994. In aggregate, growth in health expenditures dropped to its lowest rate in more than thirty years. Even at this low rate, health spending grew faster than gross domestic product (GDP), but the economy easily absorbed these modest increas...