Catastrophic health expenditures in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study

Financial protection of populations against healthcare costs is one of the fundamental responsibilities of governments. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and it's affecting factors in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19. In...

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Published in:Health promotion perspectives 2023-01, Vol.13 (1), p.68-76
Main Authors: Gheinali, Zahra, Moshiri, Esmaeil, Ebrahimi Tavani, Masoumeh, Haghi, Mehdi, Gharibi, Farid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
catastrophic
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Cross-sectional studies
Developing countries
Disease transmission
Dyspnea
Epidemics
Expenditures
Food
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Health care expenditures
Health care policy
health expenditures
Health insurance
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Households
LDCs
Original
Patients
Validity
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Summary:Financial protection of populations against healthcare costs is one of the fundamental responsibilities of governments. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and it's affecting factors in hospitalized patients with delta variant of COVID-19. In this cross-sectional study, we included 400 hospitalized COVID-19 patients at Kosar Hospital of Semnan in 2022, using a researcher-made checklist. Based on qualitative nature of the variables, chi-square test was used to investigate the statistical associations between the demographic/background characteristics and the incidence of CHE. On average, COVID-19 imposed 1833.43 USD direct medical costs per one hospitalized patient. The ratio of direct-medical costs to household's non-food expenses was 2.35, and 61% (CI:±4.78%) of the patients were subject to CHE. Besides, residence place, basic insurance type, benefitting from supplementary insurance, suffering from underlying diseases, hospitalization in ICU, falling into a coma, facing pulmonary failure, and performing hemoperfusion had significant associations with CHE (
ISSN:2228-6497
2228-6497
DOI:10.34172/hpp.2023.09