Coping with health-care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty
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Coping with health-care costs: implications for the measurement of catastrophic expenditures and poverty.
In the absence of formal health insurance, we argue that the strategies households adopt to finance health care have important implications for the measurement and interpretation of how health payments impact on consumption and poverty. Given data on source of finance, we propose to (a) approximate the relative impact of health payments on current consumption with a 'coping'-adjusted health exp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Economics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1057-9230,1099-1050
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1338