Porous safety net: catastrophic health expenditure and its determinants among insured households in Togo

• मुख्य लेखकों: Esso-Hanam Atake (लेखक), Djesika D. Amendah (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: BMC, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Abstract Background In Togo, about half of health care costs are paid at the point of service, which reduces access to health care and exposes households to catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). To address this situation, the Togolese government introduced a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS)...