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Article: Catastrophic payments for health care in Asia

TitleCatastrophic payments for health care in Asia
Authors
KeywordsAsia
Catastrophic health payments
Health care financing
Issue Date2007
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/5749
Citation
Health Economics, 2007, v. 16 n. 11, p. 1159-1184 How to Cite?
AbstractOut-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.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/86918
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2023 Impact Factor: 2.0
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.144
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dc.contributor.authorO'Donnell, Oen_HK
dc.contributor.authorRannanEliya, RPen_HK
dc.contributor.authorSomanathan, Aen_HK
dc.contributor.authorAdhikari, SRen_HK
dc.contributor.authorGarg, CCen_HK
dc.contributor.authorHarbianto, Den_HK
dc.contributor.authorHerrin, ANen_HK
dc.contributor.authorHuq, MNen_HK
dc.contributor.authorIbragimova, Sen_HK
dc.contributor.authorKaran, Aen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLee, TJen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLeung, GMen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLu, JFRen_HK
dc.contributor.authorNg, CWen_HK
dc.contributor.authorPande, BRen_HK
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dc.contributor.authorTao, Sen_HK
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dc.contributor.authorZhao, Yen_HK
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dc.date.issued2007en_HK
dc.identifier.citationHealth Economics, 2007, v. 16 n. 11, p. 1159-1184en_HK
dc.identifier.issn1057-9230en_HK
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dc.description.abstractOut-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.en_HK
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dc.rightsHealth economics. Copyright © John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_HK
dc.subjectAsia-
dc.subjectCatastrophic health payments-
dc.subjectHealth care financing-
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dc.subject.meshCatastrophic Illness - economicsen_HK
dc.subject.meshFamily Characteristicsen_HK
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dc.titleCatastrophic payments for health care in Asiaen_HK
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