Financial burden of drug expenditures in Poland

Julita Łuczak and Pilar Garcia-Gomez

Health Policy, 2012, vol. 105, issue 2, 256-264

Abstract: This paper investigates the level of catastrophic out-of-pocket pharmaceutical (OOP) expenditures and their impoverishment effect in Poland.

Keywords: Catastrophic health expenditure; Poverty impact; Drugs with prescription; Over-the-counter drugs; Out-of-pocket payments; Health system in Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.01.004

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