Protecting patients with cardiovascular diseases from catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment by health finance reform

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1846-1854

  Sun, Jing ^a   Liabsuetrakul, Tippawan ^b   Fan, Yancun ^a   Mcneil, Edward ^b  

^a INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Catastrophic health expenditure; Financial risk; Health financial reform; Impoverishment; Rural

Indexed keywords

AID REFORM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; FINANCIAL SERVICES; HEALTH EXPENDITURE; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATASTROPHIC HEALTH EXPENDITURE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POVERTY; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL AREA; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERMINAL DISEASE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; INCOME; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONGOLIA; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84955182835     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12611     Document Type: Article

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