Documenting catastrophic spending on health by migrant slum population
| العنوان: | Documenting catastrophic spending on health by migrant slum population |
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| المؤلفون: | Saira Mehnaz, Ali Jafar Abedi, Shazia Farooq Fazli, Sakeena Mushfiq, Zulfia Khan, M Athar Ansari |
| المصدر: | Indian Journal of Community Health. 31:308-314 |
| بيانات النشر: | Indian Association of Preventive and Social Medicine, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
| الوصف: | Background: India ranks among the bottom five countries in public health spending. Out of pocket spending of households on healthcare is almost 70% of income and reimbursement in any form availed by households whose members are employed in the formal sector is negligible. Objectives: To determine the usual source of medical care opted for by the study population. To find out the illness pattern and its age/sex distribution in the study population. To find out the expenditure incurred on illness and its source of procurement by the study population. Methodology: 52.42% urban Aligarh resides in slums. A cross sectional study was done to study the newer slum pockets. 3409 households with a population of 16,978 were studied with the help of pretested questionnaire; SPSS 20 was used for statistical analysis. Results: In our study, we found that almost all the households suffered from catastrophic health expenditure. The study population, which was already vulnerable owing to their low socio-economic and migrant status was further forced into poverty and indebtedness on account of expenditure on illness. Conclusions: National health financing systems should be designed to protect households from financial catastrophe, by reducing out-of-pocket spending. |
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| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::b2b0028ae993dfb5523710583183b711 https://doi.org/10.47203/ijch.2019.v31i03.004 |
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