TY - JOUR
AU - Laba Tracey-Lea
AU - Muhunthan Janani
AU - Nugent Rachel
AU - Atun Rifat
AU - Essue Beverley
AU - Gheorghe Adrian
AU - Engelgau Michael
AU - Mahal Ajay
AU - Griffiths Ulla
AU - McIntyre Diane
AU - Meng Qingyue
AU - Jan Stephen
AB - <p>The economic burden on households of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, and diabetes, poses major challenges to global poverty alleviation efforts. For patients with NCDs, being uninsured is associated with 2-7-fold higher odds of catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket costs; however, the protection offered by health insurance is often incomplete. To enable coverage of the predictable and long-term costs of treatment, national programmes to extend financial protection should be based on schemes that entail compulsory enrolment or be financed through taxation. Priority should be given to eliminating financial barriers to the uptake of and adherence to interventions that are cost-effective and are designed to help the poor. In concert with programmes to strengthen national health systems and governance arrangements, comprehensive financial protection against the growing burden of NCDs is crucial in meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.</p>
BT - Lancet
C1 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29627161?dopt=Abstract
DO - 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30323-4
IS - 10134
J2 - Lancet
LA - eng
N2 - <p>The economic burden on households of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular diseases, cancer, respiratory diseases, and diabetes, poses major challenges to global poverty alleviation efforts. For patients with NCDs, being uninsured is associated with 2-7-fold higher odds of catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket costs; however, the protection offered by health insurance is often incomplete. To enable coverage of the predictable and long-term costs of treatment, national programmes to extend financial protection should be based on schemes that entail compulsory enrolment or be financed through taxation. Priority should be given to eliminating financial barriers to the uptake of and adherence to interventions that are cost-effective and are designed to help the poor. In concert with programmes to strengthen national health systems and governance arrangements, comprehensive financial protection against the growing burden of NCDs is crucial in meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.</p>
PY - 2018
SP - 2047
EP - 2058
T2 - Lancet
TI - Action to address the household economic burden of non-communicable diseases.
VL - 391
SN - 1474-547X
ER -