Sökning: "out-of-pocket payment"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden out-of-pocket payment.
1. The injury poverty trap in rural Vietnam : causes, consequences and possible solutions
Sammanfattning : The focus of this study is the vicious circle of poverty and ill-health. The case is injuries but it could have been any lasting and severe disease. Poverty and health have very close links to economic development and to how health care is financed. Out-of-pocket payment seems to increase the risk of poverty while prepaid health care reduces it. LÄS MER
2. Health financing systems and drug use in rural China
Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to study the association between health-care financing systems and health-care consumers' drug use and health providers' prescribing in six Chinese counties. In a cross-sectional study, a multistage sampling procedure was used to select provinces, counties, townships and villages. LÄS MER
3. Access to tuberculosis care in rural China : comparing the impact of alternative control projects
Sammanfattning : Background: China has the second highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. The modern TB control strategies Directly Observed Treatment, Short Course (DOTS) has, since 1992, been adopted by the National TB Control Programme (NTP) with subsidized or free TB care to smear-positive TB patients. LÄS MER
4. Healthcare financing challenges and opportunities to achieving universal health coverage in the low- and middle-income country context
Sammanfattning : Background: In Bangladesh, on an average 62% of total healthcare spending was borne by households through out-of-pocket (OOP) payments annually during 2000- 2015. Because of such high OOP payments, a sizable proportion of households (15.7%) faced catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and a number of them fell into poverty in 2010. LÄS MER