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Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia

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van Doorslaer, Eddy, O'Donnell, Owen, Rannan‐Eliya, Ravindra P., Somanathan, Aparnaa, Adhikari, Shiva Raj, Garg, Charu C., Harbianto, Deni, Herrin, Alejandro N., Huq, Mohammed Nazmul, Ibragimova, Shamsia, Karan, Anup, Lee, Tae‐Jin, Leung, Gabriel M., Lu, Jui‐Fen Rachel, Ng, Chiu Wan, Pande, Badri Raj, Racelis, Rachel, Tao, Sihai, Tin, Keith, Tisayaticom, Kanjana, Trisnantoro, Laksono, Vasavid, Chitpranee, Zhao, Yuxin·2007·Health Economics
DOI 10.1002/hec.1209
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Out‐of‐pocket (OOP) payments are the principal means of financing health care throughout much of Asia. We estimate the magnitude and distribution of OOP payments for health care in fourteen countries and territories accounting for 81% of the Asian population. We focus on payments that are catastrophic, in the sense of severely disrupting household living standards, and approximate such payments by those absorbing a large fraction of household resources. Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal and Vietnam rely most heavily on OOP financing and have the highest incidence of catastrophic payments. Sri Lanka, Thailand and Malaysia stand out as low to middle income countries that have constrained both the OOP share of health financing and the catastrophic impact of direct payments. In most low/middle‐income countries, the better‐off are more likely to spend a large fraction of total household resources on health care. This may reflect the inability of the poorest of the poor to divert resources from other basic needs and possibly the protection of the poor from user charges offered in some countries. But in China, Kyrgyz and Vietnam, where there are no exemptions of the poor from charges, they are as, or even more, likely to incur catastrophic payments. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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van Doorslaer, E., O'Donnell, O., Rannan‐Eliya, R. P., Somanathan, A., Adhikari, S. R., Garg, C. C., Harbianto, D., Herrin, A. N., Huq, M. N., Ibragimova, S., Karan, A., Lee, T., Leung, G. M., Lu, J. R., Ng, C. W., Pande, B. R., Racelis, R., Tao, S., Tin, K., Tisayaticom, K., Trisnantoro, L., Vasavid, C., & Zhao, Y.
Venue
Health Economics
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2007-02-21
Volume
16
Issue
11
Pages
1159-1184
ISSN
  • 1057-9230 (ISSN-L)
  • 1099-1050
DOI
10.1002/hec.1209
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624
References
33
FWCI
40.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
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van Doorslaer, E., O'Donnell, O., Rannan‐Eliya, R. P., Somanathan, A., Adhikari, S. R., Garg, C. C., Harbianto, D., Herrin, A. N., Huq, M. N., Ibragimova, S., Karan, A., Lee, T., Leung, G. M., Lu, J. R., Ng, C. W., Pande, B. R., Racelis, R., Tao, S., Tin, K., . . . Zhao, Y. (2007). Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia. Health Economics. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1209

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