Monetary and nonmonetary household consumption of health services and the role of insurance benefits: An analysis of the Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey

Edson Serván‐Mori and Veronika J. Wirtz
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International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2018, vol. 33, issue 4, 847-859

Abstract: Objectives To study the monetary and nonmonetary consumption of healthcare services at household level in Mexico and the magnitude of the contribution of public programs. Methods By using the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2012, we performed a cross‐sectional and observational analysis of actual household consumption of health services by insurance type (no insurance, social security, Seguro Popular (SP)). Household consumption was divided into 2 categories: consumption related to “monetary” expenditure in health care and “nonmonetary” consumption in health care by the household. Nonmonetary included self‐consumption or gifts received from other households and institutional contributions such as government payments or private organization transfers. Results In SP households, monetary and nonmonetary consumption of health services represented the highest proportion of available household expenditure (11.2%) compared to uninsured (8.4%) and social security (5.9%) households. The prevalence of outpatient consultation and medicine use is the highest among the health service consumption categories regardless of insurance status. Distribution of nonmonetary versus monetary consumption of health services was pro‐poor: The poorer the households, the larger the proportion of nonmonetary consumption. Conclusions The higher probability of receiving nonmonetary resources as a component of health service consumption in SP households is likely to increase the affordability to health services and likely to reduce healthcare expenditures. Future research should focus on the type of nonmonetary consumption of health services at household level to better understand financial protection and access to health care in Mexico.

Date: 2018
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