Open Access<p>The Study of Out-of-pocket Payment and the Exposure of Households with Catastrophic Health Expenditures Following the Health Transformation Plan in Iran</p>
Author(s) -
Esmat Nemati,
Ali Khezri,
Shirin Nosratnejad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
risk management and healthcare policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.828
H-Index - 22
ISSN - 1179-1594
DOI - 10.2147/rmhp.s264943
Subject(s) - payment , environmental health , business , marital status , poverty , medicine , health services , descriptive research , economic growth , finance , population , economics , statistics , mathematics
One of the main objectives of health systems is providing financial protection against out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures. According to the 2011 report by the World Health Organization in the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), a huge portion of health service in Iran is paid OOP, which is around 58% of the total health system expenditure. Furthermore, all over the world, around 25 million households (100 million people) are trapped in poverty as a result of paying health service costs. Therefore, this research was aimed at investigating the OOP and exposure of households with catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) following the implementation of a health transformation plan in Tabriz, Iran.