Background Out-of-pocket health expenditures (OOPs) constitute a significant proportion of
total health expenditures in many low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), leading to an …

Background Ghana since 2004, begun implementation of a National Health Insurance
Scheme (NHIS) to minimize financial barriers to health care at point of use of service …

Background Approximately 150 million people suffer from financial catastrophe annually
because of out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPEs) on health. Although the National Health …

Background Over 150 million people, mostly from low and middle-income countries (LMICs)
suffer from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) every year because of high out-of-pocket …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of the study is to quantitatively analyze the role of health
insurance in the determinants of catastrophic health payments in a low-income country …

Background Excessive healthcare payments can impede access to health services and also
disrupt the welfare of households with no financial protection. Health insurance is expected …

High out of pocket (OOP) health expenditure has negative effects on households' budgets,
pushing a considerable portion of the population below the poverty line, and potentially …

Interventions aiming to simultaneously improve financial protection and quality of care might
provide an important avenue towards universal health coverage (UHC). In this study we …

Interventions aiming to simultaneously improve financial protection and quality of care may
provide an important avenue towards universal health coverage. We estimate the effects of …

A central pillar of universal health coverage (UHC) is to achieve financial protection from
catastrophic health expenditure. There are concerns, however, that national health …