Variations in catastrophic health expenditure estimates from household surveys in India
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Variations in catastrophic health expenditure estimates from household surveys in India.
OBJECTIVE To assess the comparability of out-of-pocket (OOP) payment and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) estimates from different household surveys in India. METHODS Data on CHE, outpatient and inpatient OOP payments and other expenditure from all major national or multi-state surveys since 2000 were compared. These included two consumer expenditure surveys (the National Sample Survey f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.12.113100