Cost and economic burden of illness over 15 years in Nepal: A comparative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With an increasing burden of non-communicable disease in Nepal and limited progress towards universal health coverage, country- and disease-specific estimates of financial hardship related to healthcare costs need to be evaluated to protect the population effectively from healthcare-related financial burden.

Objectives

To estimate the cost and economic burden of illness and to assess the inequality in the financial burden due to catastrophic health expenditure from 1995 to 2010 in Nepal.

Methods

This study used nationally representative Nepal Living Standards Surveys conducted in 1995 and 2010. A Bayesian two-stage hurdle model was used to estimate average cost of illness and Bayesian logistic regression models were used to estimate the disease-specific inc

SUBMITTER: Swe KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884500 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature