Catastrophic health expenditure and household well-being

Ramses H. Abul Naga and Karine Lamiraud ()

No 803, Working Papers from University of Lausanne, Institute of Health Economics and Management (IEMS)

Abstract: According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a house-hold is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold. We develop a conceptual framework for addressing three questions in relation to this methodology, namely: 1. Can a budget share be informative about the sign of a change in welfare? 2. Is there a positive association between a household.s poverty shortfall and its health out-of-pocket budget share? 3. Does an increase in population coverage of a health insurance scheme always result in a reduction of the prevalence of catastrophic expenditures?

Keywords: Catastrophic health expenditure; welfare change; poverty; performance of health insurance schemes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-11
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