Household difficulty in payment of health care expenses can result in the 'distress sale' of property, delay or abandonment of treatment, and sacrifice expenditures on food and education [ 3, 5].
To this regard, the interviews illuminated the understanding of the quantitative findings as they revealed that households' difficulties to meet the costs associated with the entire care process, rather than just the official fees alone.
But "Brighton Beach Memoirs" is nonetheless a comedy, with most if not all the household's difficulties on their way to resolution at the end.
Household financial difficulties.
There were small gender differences also in household financial difficulties, material assets and in the reporting of safety problems.
Numerous studies have documented the responsiveness of sexual behaviour to incentives, such as sex workers willing to forego condoms when clients pay extra, 8 and increases in transactional sex in the face of household financial difficulties.
The firms say the rises are largely due to increasing wholesale prices, but critics say they are unfair and will lead households into difficulties with bills.
Insured patients with severe illnesses and high-cost treatments need specific policy action to overcome household financial difficulty issues.
The mission hospitals on the other hand operated an early discharge system, at times offering credit terms of payment to households with difficulties in raising the required funds.
According to a baseline survey conducted in 2010 in the northern part of the country and peri-urban areas of Tirana, 34-43% of households have difficulties in providing food for their families year round.
