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标题：PAYING OUT OF POCKET FOR HEALTHCARE IN BANGLADESH - A BURDEN ON POOR? (LETTER TO THE EDITOR)
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作者：HUQ NAZMUL M. ; AL AMIN ABUL QUASEM ; HOWLADER SUSHIL RANJAN 等
期刊名称：Iranian Journal of Public Health
印刷版ISSN：2251-6085
电子版ISSN：2251-6093
出版年度：2015
卷号：44
期号：7
页码：1024-1025
语种：English
出版社：THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES
摘要：Dear Editor-in-Chief: Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures for healthcare continue to be the most significant means of healthcare issue in the developing world and constitute a large share of their living financial plan. The healthcare expenditures are largely unpredictable and usually have a negative impact on the poor households, while large expenditures have catastrophic impacts on household welfare. A sudden serious feature of the illness deceits in the critical susceptibility of the poor to an unexpected and unforeseen healthcare related vulnerabilities, increased indebtedness due to income loss, and even employment. Thus, the illness and its related caring expenditures and consequent impacts can severely disrupt living standards.