The impact of out-of pocket payments of households for dental healthcare services on catastrophic healthcare expenditure in Iran.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dental healthcare is the costliest and single most source of the financial barrier to seeking and use of needed healthcare. Hence, this study aims to analyses impact of out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for dental services on prevalence catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) among Iranian households during 2018.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional analysis to determine the prevalence rate of CHE due to use of dental healthcare services among 38,858 Iranian households using the 2018 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) survey data of Iran. The WHO approach was used to determine the CHE due to use of dental care services at the 40% of household capacity to pay (CTP). Multiple logistic regression models were used to obtain the odds of facing with CHE among

SUBMITTER: Woldemichael A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8320192 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature