Out of Pocket Expenditure on Health Care among the Households of Urban Area in Dakshina Kannada
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 7
Abstract
Background: Household out-of-pocket expenditure on health com-prise self-medication and other ex-penditure paid directly by private households, irrespective of whether the contact with the health care sys-tem was established on referral or on the patient’s own initiative. The study was conducted to estimate the out of pocket expenditure on health among the households in the urban field practice area; and also to study the various factor associated with out of pocket expenditure Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 196 households in urban ar-ea of the Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka , from July to Septem-ber 2015, The data was collected us-ing a semi-structured questionnaire and analysed with SPSS v.22.0 Results: The mean out of pocket health expenditure was found to be INR 948.36. Most of the partici-pant’s utilized public facility (46.5%) followed by private facility (40.9%) and only 11.6% of partici-pants utilized both public and pri-vate facility together. There was sta-tistically significant association be-tween out of pocket expenditure and number of visits to hospital for acute and chronic disease. Conclusions: The study showed that out of pocket expenditure on health care is very high in urban ar-ea.
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Preeti Tiwari, Arijit Datta
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