Investigating the exposure of Iranian households to catastrophic health expenditure due to the need to purchase medicines.

<h4>Background</h4>Catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) is an indicator used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to assess equity in households' payments to the health system. In this paper, we prospectively calculated the population at risk of facing catastrophic expenditure du...

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Main Authors: Mohammadreza Amiresmaili, Zahra Emrani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214783