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Inequity in out-of-pocket payments for hospitalisation in India: Evidence from the National Sample Surveys, 1995–2014

Anamika Pandey, Lynda Clarke, Lalit Dandona and George B. Ploubidis

Social Science & Medicine, 2018, vol. 201, issue C, 136-147

Abstract: We report inequity in out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) for hospitalisation in India between 1995 and 2014 contrasting older population (60 years or more) with a population under 60 years (younger population).

Keywords: Gender; Horizontal inequity; Hospitalisation; Less developed states; Older population; Out-of-pocket payments; Regressive; Vertical inequity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.01.031

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