Examining the density in out-of-pocket spending share in the estimation of catastrophic health expenditures

Abdulrahman Jbaily (), Annie Haakenstad, Mizan Kiros, Carlos Riumallo-Herl and Stéphane Verguet ()
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Abdulrahman Jbaily: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Annie Haakenstad: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mizan Kiros: Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency
Carlos Riumallo-Herl: Erasmus University
Stéphane Verguet: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2022, vol. 23, issue 5, No 12, 903-912

Abstract: Abstract Universal health coverage (UHC) aims to provide access to health services for all without financial hardship. Moving toward UHC while ensuring financial risk protection (FRP) from out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures is a critical objective of the Sustainable Development Goal for Health. In tracking country progress toward UHC, analysts and policymakers usually report on two summary indicators of lack of FRP: the prevalence of catastrophic health expenditures (CHE) and the prevalence of impoverishing health expenditures. In this paper, we build on the CHE indicator: we examine the distribution (density) of health OOP budget share as a way to capture both the magnitude and dispersion in the ratio of households’ OOP health expenditures relative to consumption or income at the population level. We illustrate our approach with country-specific examples using data from the World Health Organization’s World Health Surveys.

Keywords: Financial risk protection; Out-of-pocket health expenditures; Catastrophic health expenditures; Universal health coverage; Equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I11 I13 I14 I15 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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