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| Title |
Catastrophic health care spending and impoverishment in Kenya
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-413 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jane Chuma, Thomas Maina |
| Abstract |
Many health systems in Africa are funded primarily through out-of-pocket payments. Out-of-pocket payments prevent people from seeking care, can result to catastrophic health spending and lead to impoverishment. This paper estimates the burden of out-of-pocket payments in Kenya; the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health care expenditure and the effect of health spending on national poverty estimates. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Kenya | 2 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 1 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 83% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 319 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 3 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Belgium | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 313 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 92 | 29% |
| Researcher | 41 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 23 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 22 | 7% |
| Other | 45 | 14% |
| Unknown | 66 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 86 | 27% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 37 | 12% |
| Social Sciences | 35 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 25 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 14 | 4% |
| Other | 40 | 13% |
| Unknown | 82 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 March 2023.
All research outputs
#2,919,923
of 24,290,096 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#1,272
of 8,186 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,951
of 284,307 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#16
of 121 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,290,096 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,186 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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