Abolfazl Payandeh|Yadollah Mehrabi|Farid Zayeri|Zahra Rezaei Ghahroodi
Health Expenditure Modelling in Southeast of Iran: A Population-Based Setting Using Quantile Regression Perspective
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
background equity health focus attention world health circles recent decades financing household health expenditure therefore concern region objectives current study aimed exploring determinants household health expenditure sistan baluchistan province southeast iran methods data current study part iranian households income expenditure survey administered iranian statistical center isc march 2013 march 2014 3stage stratified cluster sampling method employed current cross sectional survey total 1391 households sistan baluchistan province randomly selected study employed quantile regression modelling determine effective explanatory variables household health expenses r programming language version 332 used data analysis results found annual median per capita medical expenditure us 536 first quartile 0 third quartile 3831 households also spent 39 annual income health expenses per capita literacy occupational status household head family income significant effect median household health expenses conclusions researchers policy makers pay attention household health expenses important matter lowincome deprived areas