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Nemati E, Khezri A, Nosratnejad S. The Study of Out-of-pocket Payment and the Exposure of Households with Catastrophic Health Expenditures Following the Health Transformation Plan in Iran. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2020;13:1677-1685doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S264943.
Nemati, E., Khezri, A., & Nosratnejad, S. (2020). The Study of Out-of-pocket Payment and the Exposure of Households with Catastrophic Health Expenditures Following the Health Transformation Plan in Iran. Risk management and healthcare policy, 131677-1685. https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S264943
Nemati, Esmat, et al. "The Study of Out-of-pocket Payment and the Exposure of Households with Catastrophic Health Expenditures Following the Health Transformation Plan in Iran." Risk management and healthcare policy vol. 13 (2020): 1677-1685. doi: https://doi.org/10.2147/RMHP.S264943
Nemati E, Khezri A, Nosratnejad S. The Study of Out-of-pocket Payment and the Exposure of Households with Catastrophic Health Expenditures Following the Health Transformation Plan in Iran. Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2020 Sep 22;13:1677-1685. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S264943. eCollection 2020. PMID: 33061701; PMCID: PMC7519814.
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Risk Manag Healthc Policy. 2020 Sep 22;13:1677-1685. doi: 10.2147/RMHP.S264943. eCollection 2020.

The Study of Out-of-pocket Payment and the Exposure of Households with Catastrophic Health Expenditures Following the Health Transformation Plan in Iran.

Risk management and healthcare policy

Esmat Nemati, Ali Khezri, Shirin Nosratnejad

Affiliations

  1. Department of Accreditation and Supervision on Treatment, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran.
  2. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Bam University of Medical Sciences, Bam, Iran.
  3. Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
  4. Department of Health Economics, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.

PMID: 33061701 PMCID: PMC7519814 DOI: 10.2147/RMHP.S264943

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: One of the main objectives of health systems is providing financial protection against out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures. According to the 2011 report by the World Health Organization in the Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO), a huge portion of health service in Iran is paid OOP, which is around 58% of the total health system expenditure. Furthermore, all over the world, around 25 million households (100 million people) are trapped in poverty as a result of paying health service costs. Therefore, this research was aimed at investigating the OOP and exposure of households with catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) following the implementation of a health transformation plan in Tabriz, Iran.

METHODS: A descriptive-analytic study was conducted on a cross-sectional basis. The sample included 400 households, who were interviewed using the World Health Survey questionnaire, and then OOP payment and exposure of households to CHE were estimated, and the effective factors on OOP payment and the determinants of CHE were analyzed using a regression model.

RESULTS: After implementing the health transformation plan, the average share of households' OOP payments, toward their ability to pay was 13.2%. In addition, 11.25% of the households were exposed to CHE in Tabriz. The key determinants of OOP were income, dental services, pharmaceuticals, radiology, and physiotherapy. The factors affecting CHE were income, insurance status, marital status, dental services, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiological services.

CONCLUSION: Based on the results of the current study and compared to similar research conducted prior to this plan, it is obvious that the transformation plan was able to achieve its goal in "reducing OOP payments". However, health services such as dental, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiology would increase the likelihood of facing OOP payments. These variables should be considered by health policy-makers in order to review and revise the content of recent reform to provide financial protection against OOP for people.

© 2020 Nemati et al.

Keywords: CHE; Iran; OOP; catastrophic health expenditures; health transformation plan; households; out-of-pocket payments

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest in this work.

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