Many studies have shown the crippling effects of sanctions on the healthcare sector of
different countries, including Iran. Long-standing sanctions against Iran escalated recently …

This narrative review explores the potential of FinTech in promoting sustainable healthcare
development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), focusing on the role of blockchain, crowdfunding …

Background Different countries have set different policies to control and decrease the costs
of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Iran was aiming to reduce the economic burden of …

Background Financial risk protection (FRP), defined as households' access to needed
healthcare services without experiencing undue financial hardship, is a critical health …

Background: The COVID-19 infection is a novel virus that mainly targets the respiratory
system via specific receptors without any coronavirus-targeted therapies. Many efforts have …

Background One of the major goals of health systems is providing a financing strategy
without inequality; this has a significant impact on people's access to healthcare. The …

Background The high reliance on out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health financing in Iran
have been led to different inequity problems such as catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) …

Background: Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are an inequitable mechanism for health
financing as their high share of total health expenditures poses a risk of catastrophic …

Introduction Removal of user fee for vulnerable people reduces the financial barriers
associated with healthcare payments, which, in turn, improves health outcomes and …

Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are perceived as the most regressive means of health
financing. Using the panel-data approach and region-aggregated data from Statistics …