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Catastrophic health expenditure on chronic non-communicable diseases among elder population: A cross-sectional study from a sub-metropolitan city of Eastern Nepal

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  • Sangita Rai
  • Swotantra Gautam
  • Gopal Kumar Yadav
  • Surya Raj Niraula
  • Suman Bahadur Singh
  • Rajan Rai
  • Sagar Poudel
  • Ram Bilakshan Sah

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Introduction: This study was conducted with the objective to analyze the out-of-pocket (OOP) healthcare expenditure and catastrophic healthcare expenditure (CHE) on chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCD) among the elderly population, and the association of CHE on CNCD with associated factors among the same population. Materials and methods: We collected data from the elderly population of Dharan Sub-metropolitan city of the Eastern Nepal via door-to-door survey and face-to-face interview. The ten wards out of twenty were chosen by lottery method, and the equal proportion out of 280 samples was purposively chosen from each of ten wards (28 participants from each selected ward). The data were entered in Microsoft Excel 2019 v16.0 and statistical analysis was performed by using statistical package for social sciences, IBM SPSS® v21. The chi-square test was used to test the group differences. Multivariable logistic regression was used to determine independent factors associated with CHE (all variables with P

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  • Sangita Rai & Swotantra Gautam & Gopal Kumar Yadav & Surya Raj Niraula & Suman Bahadur Singh & Rajan Rai & Sagar Poudel & Ram Bilakshan Sah, 2022. "Catastrophic health expenditure on chronic non-communicable diseases among elder population: A cross-sectional study from a sub-metropolitan city of Eastern Nepal," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(12), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0279212
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279212
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