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Financial Risk Protection and Unmet Healthcare Need in Russia.

Zlatko NikoloskiMichele CecchiniElias A Mossialos
Published in: International journal of health policy and management (2021)
As stressed by the UHC framework, our findings suggest that CHE only partly captures inefficiencies and inequities in coverage, because one tenth of households forwent medical care for medicines and certain services. As spending on medicines and dental care are the main drivers of CHE, policy interventions should focus on extending coverage for pharmaceutical and dental care and target financial barriers to seeking care, particularly for the poor and vulnerable.
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