Published in Health Econ on November 01, 2007
Be rich or don't be sick: estimating Vietnamese patients' risk of falling into destitution. Springerplus (2015) 3.62
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Catastrophic health care spending and impoverishment in Kenya. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 1.73
State health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India. Int J Health Care Finance Econ (2012) 1.55
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Maternal and neonatal health expenditure in Mumbai slums (India): a cross sectional study. BMC Public Health (2011) 1.26
New evidence on financing equity in China's health care reform--a case study on Gansu province, China. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 1.21
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Social class related inequalities in household health expenditure and economic burden: evidence from Kerala, south India. Int J Equity Health (2011) 1.20
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Financial risk protection and universal health coverage: evidence and measurement challenges. PLoS Med (2014) 1.18
Causes and determinants of inequity in maternal and child health in Vietnam. BMC Public Health (2012) 1.16
Health-related financial catastrophe, inequality and chronic illness in Bangladesh. PLoS One (2013) 1.12
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The financial burden of morbidity in HIV-infected adults on antiretroviral therapy in Côte d'Ivoire. PLoS One (2010) 1.04
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Health inequalities and development plans in Iran; an analysis of the past three decades (1984-2010). Int J Equity Health (2014) 1.00
The group-lending model and social closure: microcredit, exclusion, and health in Bangladesh. J Health Popul Nutr (2009) 1.00
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Economic burden of influenza-associated hospitalizations and outpatient visits in Bangladesh during 2010. Influenza Other Respir Viruses (2014) 0.99
Variations in catastrophic health expenditure estimates from household surveys in India. Bull World Health Organ (2013) 0.97
Health equity in Lebanon: a microeconomic analysis. Int J Equity Health (2010) 0.97
Correlates of out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditures in Tanzania: results from a national household survey. BMC Int Health Hum Rights (2014) 0.97
Moving to universal coverage? Trends in the burden of out-of-pocket payments for health care across social groups in India, 1999-2000 to 2011-12. PLoS One (2014) 0.96
Household financial contribution to the health System in Shiraz, Iran in 2012. Int J Health Policy Manag (2014) 0.94
Micro-insurance in Bangladesh: risk protection for the poor? J Health Popul Nutr (2009) 0.93
Monitoring and evaluating progress towards Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania. PLoS Med (2014) 0.92
Paying Out-of-Pocket and Informally for Health Care in Albania: The Impoverishing Effect on Households. Front Public Health (2015) 0.91
Evaluating patients' perceptions regarding generic medicines in Jordan. J Pharm Policy Pract (2013) 0.91
Health insurance coverage, medical expenditure and coping strategy: evidence from Taiwan. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.90
Health care payments in the Asia Pacific: validation of five survey measures of economic burden. Int J Equity Health (2013) 0.89
Assessing catastrophic and impoverishing effects of health care payments in Uganda. BMC Health Serv Res (2015) 0.89
Evaluating investments in typhoid vaccines in two slums in Kolkata, India. J Health Popul Nutr (2009) 0.88
Household catastrophic healthcare expenditure and impoverishment due to rotavirus gastroenteritis requiring hospitalization in Malaysia. PLoS One (2015) 0.87
Health insurance and healthcare utilisation for Shenzhen residents: a tale of registrants and migrants? BMC Public Health (2012) 0.86
Financial catastrophe and poverty impacts of out-of-pocket health payments in Turkey. Eur J Health Econ (2014) 0.86
Disparity in reimbursement for tuberculosis care among different health insurance schemes: evidence from three counties in central China. Infect Dis Poverty (2016) 0.85
Impact of educational intervention on willingness-to-pay for health insurance: A study of informal sector workers in urban Bangladesh. Health Econ Rev (2013) 0.84
Appraising financial protection in health: the case of Tunisia. Int J Health Care Finance Econ (2013) 0.84
Catastrophic Health Expenditure After the Implementation of Health Sector Evolution Plan: A Case Study in the West of Iran. Int J Health Policy Manag (2016) 0.83
Incidence of and risk factors for hospital-acquired diarrhea in three tertiary care public hospitals in Bangladesh. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2014) 0.82
Household expenditure for dental care in low and middle income countries. PLoS One (2015) 0.82
Does community-based health insurance protect household assets? Evidence from rural Africa. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.81
Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Mongolia. Int J Equity Health (2016) 0.81
Has universal health insurance reduced socioeconomic inequalities in urban and rural health service use in Thailand? Health Place (2010) 0.81
Does HIV services decentralization protect against the risk of catastrophic health expenditures?: some lessons from Cameroon. Health Serv Res (2011) 0.80
Role of the new rural cooperative medical system in alleviating catastrophic medical payments for hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease in poor rural areas of China. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.80
Inputs for universal health coverage: a methodological contribution to finding proxy indicators for financial hardship due to health expenditure. BMC Health Serv Res (2014) 0.79
The policy of free healthcare for children under the age of 6 years in Vietnam: assessment of the uptake for children hospitalised with acute diarrhoea in Ho Chi Minh City. Trop Med Int Health (2013) 0.79
Exit from catastrophic health payments: a method and an application to Malawi. Int J Health Econ Manag (2016) 0.79
Refining estimates of catastrophic healthcare expenditure: an application in the Indian context. Int J Health Care Finance Econ (2013) 0.78
Coping with the economic burden of Diabetes, TB and co-prevalence: evidence from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.78
Availability and rational use of drugs in primary healthcare facilities following the national drug policy of 1982: is Bangladesh on right track? J Health Popul Nutr (2012) 0.78
The Effects of Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme on Maternal and Infant Health Care Utilization. PLoS One (2016) 0.77
Moving toward universal coverage of health insurance in Vietnam: barriers, facilitating factors, and lessons from Korea. J Korean Med Sci (2014) 0.77
Paying Out of Pocket for Healthcare in Bangladesh - A Burden on Poor? Iran J Public Health (2015) 0.75
Catastrophic Health Expenditures for Households with Disabled Members: Evidence from the Korean Health Panel. J Korean Med Sci (2016) 0.75
Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi. Int J Equity Health (2017) 0.75
Defining a staged-based process for economic and financial evaluations of mHealth programs. Cost Eff Resour Alloc (2017) 0.75
Does the new cooperative medical scheme reduce inequality in catastrophic health expenditure in rural China? BMC Health Serv Res (2016) 0.75
Diabetes mellitus medication use and catastrophic healthcare expenditure among adults aged 50+ years in China and India: results from the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE). BMC Geriatr (2017) 0.75
Examining geographic and socio-economic differences in outpatient and inpatient consumer expenditures for treating HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. J Int AIDS Soc (2016) 0.75
Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out of pocket spending for healthcare. Soc Sci Med (2017) 0.75
Multidimensional poverty and catastrophic health spending in the mountainous regions of Myanmar, Nepal and India. Int J Equity Health (2017) 0.75
Distribution and Determinants of Out-of-pocket Healthcare Expenditures in Bangladesh. J Prev Med Public Health (2017) 0.75
Catastrophic Health Expenditure Among Iranian Rural and Urban Households, 2013 - 2014. Iran Red Crescent Med J (2015) 0.75
Out-of-pocket Costs of Disabilities and Their Association with Household Socioeconomic Status Among School-aged Children in Vietnam. J Rural Med (2013) 0.75
Illness, medical expenditure and household consumption: observations from Taiwan. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.75
How to improve the equity of health financial sources? - Simulation and analysis of total health expenditure of one Chinese province on system dynamics. Int J Equity Health (2015) 0.75
Economic burden and catastrophic cost among people living with type2 diabetes mellitus attending a tertiary health institution in south-east zone, Nigeria. BMC Res Notes (2015) 0.75
Patterns of Health Expenditures and Financial Protections in Vietnam 1992-2012. J Korean Med Sci (2015) 0.75
Determinants of enrollment of informal sector workers in cooperative based health scheme in Bangladesh. PLoS One (2017) 0.75
Out-of-pocket expenditure and catastrophic health spending on maternal care in public and private health centres in India: a comparative study of pre and post national health mission period. Health Econ Rev (2017) 0.75
Is the medical financial assistance program an effective supplement to social health insurance for low-income households in China? A cross-sectional study. Int J Equity Health (2017) 0.75
Costs of hospitalization with respiratory syncytial virus illness among children aged <5 years and the financial impact on households in Bangladesh, 2010. J Glob Health (2017) 0.75
Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions. Science (2003) 12.26
Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong. Lancet (2003) 10.74
Effect of payments for health care on poverty estimates in 11 countries in Asia: an analysis of household survey data. Lancet (2006) 8.65
Facemasks and hand hygiene to prevent influenza transmission in households: a cluster randomized trial. Ann Intern Med (2009) 5.68
Reform of how health care is paid for in China: challenges and opportunities. Lancet (2008) 4.97
Protective efficacy of seasonal influenza vaccination against seasonal and pandemic influenza virus infection during 2009 in Hong Kong. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 4.81
Human infection with avian influenza A H7N9 virus: an assessment of clinical severity. Lancet (2013) 3.90
Reducing the impact of the next influenza pandemic using household-based public health interventions. PLoS Med (2006) 3.86
Comparative epidemiology of human infections with avian influenza A H7N9 and H5N1 viruses in China: a population-based study of laboratory-confirmed cases. Lancet (2013) 3.77
The genesis and source of the H7N9 influenza viruses causing human infections in China. Nature (2013) 3.60
Mobilising financial resources for maternal health. Lancet (2006) 3.53
The infection attack rate and severity of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza in Hong Kong. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 3.51
Coping with health-care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty. Health Econ (2008) 3.44
Viral shedding and clinical illness in naturally acquired influenza virus infections. J Infect Dis (2010) 3.29
Are urban children really healthier? Evidence from 47 developing countries. Soc Sci Med (2007) 3.21
Influenza-associated hospitalization in a subtropical city. PLoS Med (2006) 3.07
Influenza virus in human exhaled breath: an observational study. PLoS One (2008) 2.89
Methods for monitoring influenza surveillance data. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 2.88
Real-time estimates in early detection of SARS. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 2.87
Diabetic control and risk of tuberculosis: a cohort study. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 2.65
Circulating influenza virus, climatic factors, and acute myocardial infarction: a time series study in England and Wales and Hong Kong. J Infect Dis (2011) 2.64
Estimation of the serial interval of influenza. Epidemiology (2009) 2.60
Who pays for health care in Asia? J Health Econ (2007) 2.53
Epidemiology, transmission dynamics and control of SARS: the 2002-2003 epidemic. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2004) 2.45
How to maintain surveillance for novel influenza A H1N1 when there are too many cases to count. Lancet (2009) 2.44
Effects of oseltamivir treatment on duration of clinical illness and viral shedding and household transmission of influenza virus. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 2.36
Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities? Health Econ (2008) 2.35
Avian influenza risk perception, Hong Kong. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 2.28
Effects of school closures, 2008 winter influenza season, Hong Kong. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 2.18
Global analysis of Arabidopsis gene expression uncovers a complex array of changes impacting pathogen response and cell cycle during geminivirus infection. Plant Physiol (2008) 2.13
Preliminary findings of a randomized trial of non-pharmaceutical interventions to prevent influenza transmission in households. PLoS One (2008) 2.04
Hedging against antiviral resistance during the next influenza pandemic using small stockpiles of an alternative chemotherapy. PLoS Med (2009) 1.99
Transmissibility of seasonal and pandemic influenza in a cohort of households in Hong Kong in 2009. Epidemiology (2011) 1.95
Protective efficacy against pandemic influenza of seasonal influenza vaccination in children in Hong Kong: a randomized controlled trial. Clin Infect Dis (2012) 1.94
Why has the Universal Coverage Scheme in Thailand achieved a pro-poor public subsidy for health care? BMC Public Health (2012) 1.93
Horizontal equity in health care utilization evidence from three high-income Asian economies. Soc Sci Med (2006) 1.88
Studies needed to address public health challenges of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic: insights from modeling. PLoS Med (2010) 1.83
Effect of interventions on influenza A (H9N2) isolation in Hong Kong's live poultry markets, 1999-2005. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 1.82
Does breastfeeding protect against childhood overweight? Hong Kong's 'Children of 1997' birth cohort. Int J Epidemiol (2009) 1.82
MCBT: Multi-Hop Cluster Based Stable Backbone Trees for Data Collection and Dissemination in WSNs. Sensors (Basel) (2009) 1.82
Differential health reporting by education level and its impact on the measurement of health inequalities among older Europeans. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.81
Improving the evidence base for decision making during a pandemic: the example of 2009 influenza A/H1N1. Biosecur Bioterror (2011) 1.75
Optimizing the dose of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines to reduce the infection attack rate. PLoS Med (2007) 1.73
Alternative methods of estimating an incubation distribution: examples from severe acute respiratory syndrome. Epidemiology (2007) 1.70
Slipping Anchor? Testing the Vignettes Approach to Identification and Correction of Reporting Heterogeneity. J Hum Resour (2011) 1.69
Relationship between the metabolic syndrome and the development of hypertension in the Hong Kong Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence Study-2 (CRISPS2). Am J Hypertens (2008) 1.69
Epigenomic consequences of immortalized plant cell suspension culture. PLoS Biol (2008) 1.68
Childhood migration and cardiovascular risk. Int J Epidemiol (2004) 1.65
The development and validation of a knowledge, attitude and behaviour questionnaire to assess undergraduate evidence-based practice teaching and learning. Med Educ (2003) 1.65
Structure of limonene synthase, a simple model for terpenoid cyclase catalysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.64
What is the most cost-effective population-based cancer screening program for Chinese women? J Clin Oncol (2007) 1.62
Cohort profile: The Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study, a Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Birmingham collaboration. Int J Epidemiol (2006) 1.58
Obesity, physical activity, and mortality in a prospective chinese elderly cohort. Arch Intern Med (2006) 1.57
Quality of reporting of key methodological items of randomized controlled trials in clinical ophthalmic journals. Ophthalmic Epidemiol (2007) 1.57
Aerosol transmission is an important mode of influenza A virus spread. Nat Commun (2013) 1.56
The Economic impact of Non-communicable Diseases on households in India. Global Health (2012) 1.56
State health insurance and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Andhra Pradesh, India. Int J Health Care Finance Econ (2012) 1.55
Smoking and mortality in a prospective cohort study of elderly Chinese in Hong Kong. Addiction (2014) 1.52
Factors affecting QuickVue Influenza A + B rapid test performance in the community setting. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2009) 1.52
Live poultry exposure, Guangzhou, China, 2006. Epidemics (2009) 1.52
Angiogenesis in ischemic tissue produced by spheroid grafting of human adipose-derived stromal cells. Biomaterials (2011) 1.51
Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China. Econ Hum Biol (2009) 1.51
Obesity and depressive symptoms in Chinese elderly. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry (2004) 1.48
Estimating infection attack rates and severity in real time during an influenza pandemic: analysis of serial cross-sectional serologic surveillance data. PLoS Med (2011) 1.46
Live poultry exposures, Hong Kong and Hanoi, 2006. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 1.44
Household transmission of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1): a systematic review and meta-analysis. Epidemiology (2012) 1.43
Development of diabetes in Chinese with the metabolic syndrome: a 6-year prospective study. Diabetes Care (2007) 1.43
Better to die than to leave a friend behind: industry strategy to reach the young. Tob Control (2012) 1.41