BACKGROUND Little is known about expenditure items of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients over recent years in France. OBJECTIVE To describe healthcare expenditure among MS patients and identify the main expenditure drivers. METHODS All healthcare expenditure reimbursed by French National Health Insurance to MS patients in 2013 was described on the basis of nationwide health administrative dat...

background : health policy makers are concerned about protecting people from catastrophic health expenditures and subsequent impoverishment. this study aimed to describe the magnitude and distribution of catastrophic health expenditures in kermanshah western iran. methods : in this descriptive study, during may 2008, 189 households were chosen by “systematic random sampling” among the commu...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a multifaceted problem with wide-reaching medical, social and economic consequences. While health consequences are much known, but due to paucity of data, economic consequences are less known in India. The prevalence for excessive weight particularly among women population has been increasing dramatically in India in the last decades. We examined the economic burden on ind...

Background Cardiovascular disease poses a great financial risk on households in countries without universal health coverage like Ethiopia. This paper aims to estimate the magnitude and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure and factors associated with catastrophic health expenditure for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in general and specialised cardiac hospitals in Addi...

One of the limitations of cross-country health expenditure analysis refers to the fact that the financing, the internal organization and political restraints of health care decision-making are country-specific and heterogeneous. Yet, a way through is to examine the influence of such effects in those countries that have undertaken decentralization processes. In such a setting, it is possible to ...

Citation: Jakovljevic MM and Varjacic M (2017) Commentary: Do health care workforce, population, and service provision significantly contribute to the total health expenditure? An econometric analysis of Serbia. Front. Pharmacol. 8:33. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2017.00033 Commentary: Do health care workforce, population, and service provision significantly contribute to the total health expenditure? A...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES To examine the household economic impact of an outbreak of chikungunya in terms of out-of-pocket health care expenditure and income foregone due to loss of productive time in Orissa, India. METHODS Structured interviews were conducted on 150 respondents, bread winners from the affected households of a village with maximum number of reported cases in the state, during A...

BACKGROUND India is unlikely to meet the Millennium Development Goal for child mortality. As public policy impacts child mortality, we assessed the association of social sector expenditure with child mortality in India. METHODS AND FINDINGS Mixed-effects regression models were used to assess the relationship of state-level overall social sector expenditure and its major components (health, he...

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