Unexpected impact of changes in out-of-pocket payments for health care on Czech household budgets

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851012001881?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851012001881?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.07.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.07.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unexpected impact of changes in out-of-pocket payments for health care on Czech household budgets

Original language description

The Czech Republic is one of the countries that has a relatively low level of private spending on health. As a part of the health care reform package in 2008, some additional out-of-pocket payments were introduced, called ?user (patient) fees?. Furthermore, the government intends to increase some user fees in the following years. There have been serious discussions between proponents and opponents because an increase in out of pocket payments for health care may create financial obstacles for some households and restrict the desirable consumption of health care. The objective of this paper is to determine the impact of changes in out-of-pocket payments on household budgets and provide solution for more just distribution of the burden. Data from the household budget survey regularly collected by the Czech Statistical Office is used. Results showed that the burden of households increased from 2.15% of their net income to 2.63% in 2008 and to 2.55% in 2009 after the implementation of user

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50200 - Economics and Business

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2012

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Health Policy

ISSN

0168-8510

e-ISSN

0168-8510

Volume of the periodical

107

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

276-288

UT code for WoS article

000309333200016

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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