Rapid assessment of price instability and paucity of medicines and protection for COVID-19 across Asia: findings and public health implications for the future

B Godman, M Haque, S Islam, S Iqbal… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: Countries have introduced a variety of measures to prevent and treat COVID-
19 with medicines and personal protective equipment (PPE), with some countries adopting …

Rapid assessment of the potential paucity and price increases for suggested medicines and protection equipment for COVID-19 across developing countries with a …

IA Sefah, OO Ogunleye, DO Essah… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Countries across Africa and Asia have introduced a variety of measures to
prevent and treat COVID-19 with medicines and personal protective equipment (PPE) …

Multimorbidity and catastrophic health expenditure among patients with diabetes in China: a nationwide population-based study

Y Fu, M Chen, L Si - BMJ Global Health, 2022 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Multimorbidity is common among patients with diabetes and can lead to
catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) for their families. This study aims to investigate the …

Healthcare systems and professionals are key to improving health literacy in chronic kidney disease

HTT Dinh, NT Nguyen, A Bonner - Journal of Renal Care, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Comorbidity is prevalent in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and this
status burdens one's health literacy skills to understand about their health, make decisions …

Factors influencing the Vietnamese older persons in choosing healthcare facilities

TA Nguyen, LT Giang - Health Services Insights, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The rapidly growing aging population poses major challenges for health
systems in Vietnam. This study was therefore aimed to examine factors influencing the …

Everyday disease diplomacy: an ethnographic study of diabetes self-care in Vietnam

TM Gammeltoft, THD Bùi, TKD Vũ, ĐA Vũ, TÁ Nguyễn… - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background Understanding people's subjective experiences of everyday lives with chronic
health conditions such as diabetes is important for appropriate healthcare provisioning and …

How Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional (JKN) coverage influences out-of-pocket (OOP) payments by vulnerable populations in Indonesia

N Maulana, P Soewondo, N Adani… - PLOS Global Public …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
While Indonesia introduced a national health insurance scheme (JKN) in 2014 and
coverage has grown to over 80% of the population, Indonesians still spend significant sums …

How public health insurance expansion affects healthcare utilizations in middle and low-income households: an observational study from national cross-section …

CM Nguyen, MP Nguyen, LDP Luc - BMC Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Public health insurance (PHI) has been implemented with different levels of participation in
many countries, from voluntary to mandatory. In Vietnam, a law amendment made PHI …

Impact of public health insurance on out-of-pocket health expenditures of the near-poor in Vietnam

N Duc Thanh, BTM Anh, P Thanh Hung… - Health Services …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Out-of-pocket payment is one of the indicators measuring the achievement of Universal
Health Coverage. According to the World Health Organization, for countries from the Asia …

Healthcare seeking behavior among patients visiting public primary and secondary healthcare facilities in an urban Indian district: A cross-sectional quantitative …

N Fatma, V Ramamohan - PLOS Global Public Health, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In this work, we examined healthcare seeking behavior (HSB) of patients visiting public
healthcare facilities in an urban context. We conducted a cross-sectional survey across …