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Main Determinants of Catastrophic Health Expenditures: A Bayesian Logit Approach on Iranian Household Survey Data (2010)

Ali Akbar Fazaeli, Hossein Ghaderi, Amir Abbas Fazaeli, Farhad Lotfi, Masoud ‎Salehi, Mohsen Mehrara

Global Journal of Health Science · 2015 · 31 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

About 2.1% of households were faced with catastrophic health expenditures in 2010. Thus, the implemented policies could not make considerable and significant change in improving justice in financing in health systems.

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