Open AccessOut of pocket Expenditure on Health Service Delivery at a Tertiary Care Women’s Hospital: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Puja Gartaula,
Shristi Neupane,
Dip Narayan Thakur,
Raj Kumar Sangroula
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.5433
Subject(s) - medicine , tertiary care , cross sectional study , descriptive statistics , systematic sampling , quartile , descriptive research , health facility , government (linguistics) , environmental health , health care , service delivery framework , family medicine , service (business) , health services , population , economic growth , confidence interval , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , pathology , economics , economy
Institutional delivery in Nepal is increasing in the past decades and has been the priority program of the government of Nepal. However, due to the hidden costs related to institutional deliveries, the financial burden remains unacceptably high for poor households. The study aimed to find out the major out of pocket expenditure on health service delivery at a tertiary care hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal.