Search for dissertations about: "out-of-pocket payment"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words out-of-pocket payment.

2. 1. The injury poverty trap in rural Vietnam : causes, consequences and possible solutions

   Author : Thanh Nguyen Xuan; Lars Lindholm; Chuc Nguyen Thi Kim; Anders Emmelin; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; unintentional injury; poverty; out-of-pocket payment; health insurance; Vietnam; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

4. 2. Health financing systems and drug use in rural China

   Author : Hengjin Dong; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Health financing system; Health insurance; Drug use; Pharmaceuticals; Antibiotics; Care-seeking behaviour; Prescribing behaviour; Outpatient; Provider; Exit interview; China;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

5. 3. Access to tuberculosis care in rural China : comparing the impact of alternative control projects

   Author : Biao Xu; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Tuberculosis; DOTS; socioeconomic status; diagnostic delay; expenditure; health care seeking; rural; China;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

6. 4. Healthcare financing challenges and opportunities to achieving universal health coverage in the low- and middle-income country context

   Author : Sayem Ahmed; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : 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. READ MORE