Aims: Although people with a disability need comprehensive and consistent healthcare services because they often have both common and disability-related health problems, their economic status may restrict healthcare service use. this study investigated the impact of economic status changes on catastrophic health expenditures (cHE) among people with a disability in south Korea. Methods: We retri...

BACKGROUND One of the key functions of health insurance is to provide financial protection against high costs of health care, yet evidence of such protection from developing countries has been inconsistent. The current study uses the case of Ghana to contribute to the evidence pool about insurance's financial protection effects. It evaluates the impact of the country's National Health Insurance...

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...

Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the percentage households with disabled children aged 0–8 years who had faced catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) due costs these in Iran. Methods This cross-sectional carried out on 2000 five provinces Iran 2020. Data were collected using World Health Survey questionnaire and face-to-face interview. Determinants CHE identified logistic reg...

Persons with disabilities use more health care services due to ill health and face higher health care expenses and burden. This study explored the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures of households with persons with disabilities compared to that of those without such persons. We used the Korean Health Panel (KHP) dataset for the years 2010 and 2011. The final sample was 5,610 household...

Background: Families are willing to spend their entire lives improving their children due to emotional attachments, which, in turn, increases their exposure to catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs). The present study aimed to estimate the level of exposure to CHEs and its determinants among households with pediatric cancer and oncology disorders. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional s...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) prevalence and its determinants between empty-nest and non-empty-nest elderly households. SETTING Shandong province of China. PARTICIPANTS A total of 2761 elderly households are included in the analysis. RESULTS CHE incidence among elderly households was 44.9%. The CHE incidence of empty-nest singles ...