Lived experience of out-of-pocket costs of health care and medicines by people with chronic conditions and their families in Australia: a systematic review of the qualitative literature

Jane Desborough, Charles Maskell-Knight, Shelley Wang, Anne Parkinson, Danielle Butler, Hsei-Di Law, Kamania Butler, Leanne Watts, Elisabeth Huynh, Fiona Hodson, Samar Ibrahim, Julie Veitch, Jillian Kingsford-Smith, Michael Kidd and Cam Donaldson

Health Policy, 2025, vol. 158, issue C

Abstract: Despite Australia’s universal health insurance scheme, Medicare, out-of-pocket costs (OOPC) for health care comprises 14 % of total health expenditure. People with chronic conditions spend a greater proportion of their incomes on health care than people without a chronic condition.

Keywords: Out-of-pocket costs; Expenses; Chronic disease; Multimorbidity; Comorbidity; Systematic review; Qualitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2025.105359

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