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Gender bias in hospitalization financing from borrowings, selling of assets, contribution from relatives or friends in India

Kaushalendra Kumar, Abhishek Singh, K.S. James, Lotus McDougal and Anita Raj

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 260, issue C

Abstract: Studies from India have documented gender differentials in hospitalization financing. Much of this work focused either on children or adults, but not across age-groups. No research to date has focused on gender differentials in case of catastrophic hospitalization expenditures. This study assesses gender differentials in distressed financing (borrowing, selling of assets, contributions from relatives or friends) for hospitalization in cases of catastrophic expenditures for hospitalization in India, for young, adult and older adult patients.

Keywords: Hospitalization; Distressed hospitalization financing; Catastrophic hospitalization expenditure; Gender inequities; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113222

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