BACKGROUND Health-care financing should be equitable. In many developing countries such as Kenya, changes to health-care financing systems are being implemented as a means of providing equitable access to health care with the aim of attaining universal coverage. Vertical equity means that people of dissimilar ability to pay make dissimilar levels of contribution to the health-care financing sys...

Out-of-pocket expenses in healthcare show the level of direct payments by individuals paying for services that are not covered insurance. In Republic Serbia, high out-of-pocket is present considering dominant Bismarck model system and user income. Previous research shows significant impact socio-economic indicators afecting expenses. The objective to perform a cross-sectional analysis economic,...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke is a major health burden in China, but there are limited data on its economic effects on households. We aimed to examine the economic impact of stroke and to assess the influence of health insurance. METHODS In a nationwide, prospective, 62-hospital registry study of acute stroke in China, we recorded information on patient demographics, clinical features, socioe...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence and describe the profile of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment due to household out-of-pocket payments, comparing the periods before and after the introduction of universal health care coverage (UC). METHODS Secondary data analyses of socioeconomic surveys on nationally representative households pre-UC in 2000 (n = 24,747) and post-UC in 2002 (n =...

précis this debate article highlights the challenges of health situation in iran and some influencing or relevant factors such as health sector, welfare system and social protection, social exclusion and civil society from the viewpoint of an international partner. some advanced experiences in iranian health system and the manner of system for international cooperation have also been discussed.

BACKGROUND Health policy makers have long been concerned with protecting people from the possibility that ill health will lead to catastrophic financial payments and subsequent impoverishment. Yet catastrophic expenditure is not rare. We investigated the extent of catastrophic health expenditure as a first step to developing appropriate policy responses. METHODS We used a cross-country analys...

The financial catastrophe resulting from the out-of-pocket payments necessary to access and use healthcare systems has been widely studied in literature. aim of this work is predict impact a household will face as result long-term care Spain. These predictions were made using machine learning techniques such LASSO (Least Absolute Shrinkage Selection Operator) penalized regression elastic-net, w...