Out-of-Pocket Payments (OOP)
Household Out-of-Pocket Payments and Trend in Korea
... After the announcement of Moon Jae-in Government’s plan (Moon’s Care) for Benefit Expansion in National Health Insurance in August 2017, it is necessary to monitor the effects of the policy, especially household ...
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Out-of-pocket payments. In healthcare systems in the European Union
... from out-of-pocket payments, the National Health System reimburses providers for co-payments and co-insurance that would otherwise have had to be covered by ...
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Catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for households of people with severe mental disorder: a comparative study in rural Ethiopia
... catastrophic out-of-pocket payments will further increase the num- ber of households of a person with SMD falling into poverty, as well as potentially act as a deterrent from using ...
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The impact of out of pocket payments on health care inequality: the case of national health insurance in South Korea
... high out-of-pocket ...high out-of-pocket payments could impose low quality health service and catastrophic financial burden on the lowest quintile group among all enrollees of the South ...
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The impact of out of pocket payments on health care inequality: the case of national health insurance in South Korea
... high out-of-pocket ...high out-of-pocket payments could impose low quality health service and catastrophic financial burden on the lowest quintile group among all enrollees of the South ...
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Changes in Equity in Out-of-pocket Payments during the Period of Health Care Reforms: Evidence from Hungary
... Two previous studies reported Kakwani indexes of the out-of-pocket payments in Hungary [10]. Szende et al. (2002) find Kakwani indexes of −0.28 in 1999 and Csaba (2007) −0.27 in 2007 [31,32]. These ...
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Catastrophic out-of-pocket payments for households of people with severe mental disorder:a comparative study in rural Ethiopia
... catastrophic out-of-pocket payments will further increase the num- ber of households of a person with SMD falling into poverty, as well as potentially act as a deterrent from using ...
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The Impact of Compulsory Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization and Out-of-pocket Payments: New Evidence for Vietnam.
... 1. Abstract There is no doubt that health insurance has a very important role in health care and financial protection, especially for the poor. Yet, there is a large proportion of population not having health insurance ...
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Socio-economic determinants of household out-of-pocket payments on healthcare in Pakistan
... households. This contradicted Rous and Hotchkiss’s (2003) findings [18]. White collar households are a negative predictor of OOP payments in our analysis. It is contradictory to the income and health expenditure ...
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Cost-comparison and determinants of out-of-pocket payments on child delivery care in Bangladesh
... the out-of-pocket cost for child delivery. The average out-of-pocket expenditure for C-sections and normal deliveries at institution and normal delivery at home was significantly higher for ...
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Healthcare-Seeking Behavior and Out-of-Pocket Payments in Rural Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
... Abstract: This study investigates the determinants of patient’s choice of treatment (i.e., modern vs. alternative healthcare) using Bangladesh’s Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) dataset for exploring their ...
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Out-of-Pocket Payments, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Poverty Among Households in Nigeria 2010
... health payments among better-off households as found in this study shows that OOP health payments are progressive and remain an inequitable form of financing health ...
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Out-of-pocket payments, health care access and utilisation in south-eastern Nigeria: a gender perspective
... OOP payments were generally the main source of funding for health care, placing a heavy cost burden on households and were found to be regressive and catastrophic for the two poorest quartiles across all ...
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EVOLUTION OF EQUITY IN THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN COLOMBIA: THE ROLE OF OUT-OF-POCKET PAYMENTS Final Report
... OOP payments. However, if NDP’s figures for OOP payments are adjusted for inflation, it is evident thar real growth has occurred; it means that households have increased the amount of money they disburse as ...
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Barriers to universal health coverage in Republic of Moldova: a policy analysis of formal and informal out of pocket payments
... Conclusion UHC embodies the goal of effective health coverage; that is, to increase the probability that individuals will receive the health interventions that they need with appropriate quality, and that the costs ...
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The operations of the free maternal care policy and out of pocket payments during childbirth in rural Northern Ghana
... OOP payments existed during childbirth despite the operations of the free maternal care policy, however, some limitations of the study must be ...carried out after the discharge of women and family members ...
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Forgone care and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments within the German health care system
... OOP payments through the GKV-Modernisierungsgesetz (GMG) in 2004 which led to an increase of OOP pay- ments on the one hand and to an accentuation of the OOP payments exemption limit on the other hand, ...
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Impact of out of pocket payments on financial risk protection indicators in a setting with no user fees: the case of Mauritius
... health payments with expendi- tures exceeding a significant fraction of total household expenditures and, ultimately, leading to impoverishment, with households choosing to borrow money or selling assets to cater ...
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The out of pocket payments in low and middle-income countries and the affecting factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... The out of pocket (OOP) payment is the most important source of health system financial support in low and middle-income countries (LMICs); therefore, considering and controlling health expenses are pivotal ...
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Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis
... % of the whole population, excluding only marginal groups. It is mainly financed by income related con- tributions paid by employers and employees. These contributions are the sole source of financing public outpatient ...
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