Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis
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Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis
BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket spending is an important source of healthcare financing even in countries with established prepaid financing of healthcare. However, out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) may have undesirable effects from an equity perspective. In this study, we analyse the distributive effects of OOPP in Austria based on cross-sectional information from the Austrian Household Budget Survey 200...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Equity in Health
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1475-9276
DOI: 10.1186/s12939-015-0230-7