Open AccessOut of pocket expenditure and its associated factors in neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care unit of tertiary care government hospital of Agra District, Uttar Pradesh
Author(s) -
Renu Agrawal,
Rudresh Negi,
Sunil Kaushal,
Sunil Misra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_164_19
Subject(s) - agra , medicine , public health , referral , neonatal intensive care unit , odds , environmental health , odds ratio , government (linguistics) , health care , logistic regression , cross sectional study , pediatrics , family medicine , economic growth , nursing , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , pathology , economics , biology
Neonatal health remains a thrust area of public health, and an increased out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) may hamper efforts toward universal health coverage. Public spending on health remains low and insurance schemes few, thereby forcing impoverishment upon individuals already close to poverty line.