For his trouble, he faces impoverishment, banishment, shame, and even execution, which is perfectly consistent with the path of discipleship that Jesus has described throughout Luke's gospel.
Meanwhile, households face impoverishment due to paying for medicines [ 12, 13] while patients die prematurely because they lack access to lifesaving medicines [ 14].
An analysis for Thailand also concluded that households using inpatient services from private hospitals are more likely to face impoverishment due to OOP spending [ 33].
Analysis of pre-resettlement questionnaire survey data (n = 199) revealed many affected households in rural areas intended to migrate to urban areas, and showed that potential rural urban migrants may face intensified impoverishment risks of landlessness, homelessness, and increased morbidity compared to potential urban urban and rural rural resettlers.
For many there will be no choice: they cannot work or are unable to find it, and as a result face hunger, impoverishment and homelessness.
"In many cases, they faced a life of impoverishment," said Murray Gendell, a former Georgetown University professor of demographics who continues to track the average retirement age in his own retirement.
With its growing relative impoverishment and faced with the prospect of "losing" the presidency until at least 2015 if Jonathan wins the 2011 election, northern political elites now may well give serious consideration to the candidacy of Muhammadu Buhari, the former military ruler known for his austere lifestyle and intolerance for corruption.
However, many TB patients and families are still facing very high direct and indirect costs due to TB illness and care-seeking, hampering access and putting people at risk of financial ruin or further impoverishment [ 5, 6].
We face serious challenges of cultural impoverishment.
Minh et al.'s research demonstrates that chronic diseases are highly prevalent in rural populations and that households are more likely to face catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment for chronic noncommunicable disorders (8).
