Predictors of high out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure: an analysis using Bangladesh household income and expenditure survey, 2010

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• 作者：Azaher Ali Molla ; Chunhuei Chi ; Alicia Lorena Núñez Mondaca
• 关键词：Predictors of healthcare expenditure ; Out ; of ; pocket expenditure ; Health systems finance ; Health policy ; Household financial burden ; Chronic illness ; Rural ; urban differentials
• 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：536KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Research;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6963
• 卷排序：17

文摘

BackgroundPredictors of high out-of-pocket household healthcare expenditure are essential for creating effective health system finance policy. In Bangladesh, 63.3% of health expenditure is out-of-pocket and born by households. It is imperative to know what determines household health expenditure. This study aims to investigate the predicting factors of high out-of-pocket household healthcare expenditure targeting to put forward policy recommendations on equity in financial burden.