Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure

Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure

Equity in health financing is an important health policy objective worldwide. A health system is fair in the case that its financing is in proportion to the household’s ability to pay. The households are facing Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) when their health expenditure exceeds the...

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Main Author: Hosein Ameri
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences 2018-12-01
Series:Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat
Subjects:
Equity
Financing
Catastrophic health expenditure
Online Access:http://mshsj.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-58&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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spelling doaj-0a316cb7ab5741c3b3dd2d9bc486646a2020-11-25T01:14:17ZfasShahid Sadoughi University of Medical SciencesRāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat2476-68792538-15632018-12-0133165167Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health ExpenditureHosein Ameri0 Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Management, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran Equity in health financing is an important health policy objective worldwide. A health system is fair in the case that its financing is in proportion to the household’s ability to pay. The households are facing Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) when their health expenditure exceeds their ability to pay. The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME) (Iran) has launched reforms in the health sector evolution plan (HSEP) to improve the conditions in Iran’s health system. One of the main objectives of this plan was financial protection of people. In order to achieve its goals, the program tried to expand the population coverage through pre-payment mechanisms, protect the poor and disadvantaged people, design a benefits package, and decide the level of cost sharing by the patients.http://mshsj.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-58&slc_lang=en&sid=1Equity Financing Catastrophic health expenditure
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Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure
Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat
Equity
Financing
Catastrophic health expenditure
author_facet Hosein Ameri
author_sort Hosein Ameri
title Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure
title_short Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure
title_full Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure
title_fullStr Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure
title_full_unstemmed Equity in Health Financing with an Emphasis on Catastrophic Health Expenditure
title_sort equity in health financing with an emphasis on catastrophic health expenditure
publisher Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences
series Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat
issn 2476-6879
2538-1563
publishDate 2018-12-01
description Equity in health financing is an important health policy objective worldwide. A health system is fair in the case that its financing is in proportion to the household’s ability to pay. The households are facing Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) when their health expenditure exceeds their ability to pay. The Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MHME) (Iran) has launched reforms in the health sector evolution plan (HSEP) to improve the conditions in Iran’s health system. One of the main objectives of this plan was financial protection of people. In order to achieve its goals, the program tried to expand the population coverage through pre-payment mechanisms, protect the poor and disadvantaged people, design a benefits package, and decide the level of cost sharing by the patients.
topic Equity
Financing
Catastrophic health expenditure
url http://mshsj.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-58&slc_lang=en&sid=1
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