Introduction: The most important goals of the health and cure services are promotion of life
quality and equal access of all the people to aforementioned services. Higher health care …

Background: Out-of-pocket is one of the most important payment methods in Iran's health
system, which has negative impacts on equity and pushes the vulnerable groups into …

Who has declared that protected of people against medical expenditures is as one of the
three important objectives of the health system. The criticized of the economic situation …

Background: Out-of-pocket payments for medical services may undermine access to medical
services and equity in healthcare financing. Objectives: The present study aimed to …

Objective To identify and explain the interactions and network of the relationship between
influential factors of out-ofpocket payments for health services. Methods This futures study …

Objective (s): The out of pocket is one of financial resources in health system that might
cause severe suffering for many households. The aim of this study was to estimate the out of …

Background: One of the main goals of health sector evolution plan is reducing the amount of
out of pocket payment by patients receiving hospital services in public sectors. This study …

BACKGROUND: Throughout the world, financing the healthcare system through
households' financial contribution is a challenging issue in evaluating performance of …

Introduction: Major part of health expenditure is paid directly by households in most of
developing countries. This catastrophic expenditure is entailed on families. Assessing …

Objectives Out-of-pocket (OOP) costs are a major part of the expenditures for healthcare
services. In most cases, patient financial protection plans cover only direct medical costs and …