Out-of-pocket expenditure and financial protection in the Chilean health care system—A systematic review

Kira Johanna Koch, Camilo Cid Pedraza and Andreas Schmid ()

Health Policy, 2017, vol. 121, issue 5, 481-494

Abstract: Protection against financial risk due to medical spending is an explicit health guarantee within Chile’s AUGE health reform. This paper seeks to analyze the degree to which out-of-pocket expenditure still expose Chilean households to financial catastrophe and impoverishment, and to explore inequalities in financial protection.

Keywords: Out-of-pocket expenditure; Financial protection; Catastrophic health expenditure; Impoverishment; Chile; AUGE reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2017.02.013

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