Catastrophic Health ExpenditureandHousehold Well-Being

Ramses Abul Naga and Karine Lamiraud

STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

Abstract: According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a household 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; performanceof health insurance schemes. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-11
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/darp/darp98.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being (2011)
Working Paper: Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being (2009)
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:cep:stidar:098

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().