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

• Main Authors: Abraha Woldemichael (Author), Satar Rezaei (Author), Ali Kazemi Karyani (Author), Mohammad Ebrahimi (Author), Shahin Soltani (Author), Abbas Aghaei (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...