Aliakbar Fazaeli|Hossein Ghaderi|Amir Abbas Fazaeli|Farhad Lotfi|Masoud Salehi|Mohsen Mehrara
Main Determinants of Catastrophic Health Expenditures: A Bayesian Logit Approach on Iranian Household Survey Data (2010)
Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|Iran University of Medical Sciences|University of Tehran
recent decades increase health care expenditures improvement awareness well health expectations created problems regard finance healthcare expenditures issue health financing households determined major challenge health sector according definition world health organization catastrophic health expenditure considered financial contribution health service 40 income remaining subsistence needs metthe purpose study determination main factors catastrophic health expenditures iranian householdsin study using econometrics bayesian logit model determinants appearance catastrophic health expenditure based household budget data collected 2010 evaluatedamong iranian households following groups likely encounter unsustainable health expenditures rural households households numbers elderly 65 years illiterate householders unemployed householders households unemployed persons households upper rank households larger equivalent household size higher average community could significantly predict catastrophic health expendituresabout 21 households faced catastrophic health expenditures 2010 thus implemented policies could make considerable significant change improving justice financing health systems