What can dissaving tell us about catastrophic costs? Linear and logistic regression analysis of the relationship between patient costs and financial coping strategies adopted by tuberculosis patients in Bangladesh, Tanzania and Bangalore, India

Jason J Madan, Knut Lonnroth, Samia Laokri and Stephen Bertel SB Squire

ULB Institutional Repository from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major global public health problem which affects poorest individuals the worst. A high proportion of patients incur 'catastrophic costs' which have been shown to result in severe financial hardship and adverse health outcomes. Data on catastrophic cost incidence is not routinely collected, and current definitions of this indicator involve several practical and conceptual barriers to doing so. We analysed data from TB programmes in India (Bangalore), Bangladesh and Tanzania to determine whether dissaving (the sale of assets or uptake of loans) is a useful indicator of financial hardship.

Keywords: Catastrophic health expenditure; Tuberculosis; Financial protection for health; Innovative measurements; coping strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev and nep-hea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Published in: BMC health services research (2015) v.15,p.476

Downloads: (external link)
https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/223014/4/doi_206641.pdf Full text for the whole work, or for a work part (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/223014

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://hdl.handle.ne ... lb.ac.be:2013/223014

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ULB Institutional Repository from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Benoit Pauwels ().