Disaggregating catastrophic health expenditure by disease area: cross-country estimates based on the World Health Surveys

Volume: 17, Issue: 1
Published: Feb 13, 2019
Abstract
Financial risk protection (FRP) is a key objective of national health systems and a core pillar of universal health coverage (UHC). Yet, little is known about the disease-specific distribution of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) at the national level. Using the World Health Surveys (WHS) from 39 countries, we quantified CHE, or household health spending that surpasses 40% of capacity-to-pay by key disease areas. We restricted our analysis...
Paper Details
Title
Disaggregating catastrophic health expenditure by disease area: cross-country estimates based on the World Health Surveys
Published Date
Feb 13, 2019
Volume
17
Issue
1
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