Presence of Severe Injuries and Financial Burden of Hospitalization: A Case of Vietnam

Phuong Vu () and Ardeshir Sepehri ()
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Phuong Vu: National Economics University, School of Banking and Finance
Ardeshir Sepehri: University of Manitoba

A chapter in Organizations and Performance in a Complex World, 2021, pp 401-415 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Using Vietnam’s Household Living Standard Survey of 2014 and a multivariate regression analysis, this paper compares inpatient out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure among individuals reporting at least one severe injury and those reporting no severe injuries during the 12 months preceding the survey (n = 2771). Presence of severe injuries is found to increase inpatient OOP expenditure by 60% and the increase in OOP expenditure is more pronounced for contacts at a central hospital (154.7%) than at a district hospital (45.4%). Our findings suggest that the financial protection of health insurance is modest, reducing OOP expenditure by 31.5% for a contact at a central hospital and by 44–50% for a contact at district and provincial/city hospitals. Measures should be taken to strengthen the injury care at the community level while broadening the breadth and depths of insurance coverage.

Keywords: Severe injuries; Out-of-pocket expenditures; Inpatient care; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50676-6_32

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