Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being

Ramses Abul Naga and Karine Lamiraud

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Abstract: According to the catastrophic health expenditure methodology a house-hold is in catastrophe if its health out-of-pocket budget share exceeds a critical threshold. We develop a conceptual framework for addressing three questions in relation to this methodology, namely: 1. Can a budget share be informative about the sign of a change in welfare? 2. Is there a positive association between a household's poverty shortfall and its health out-of-pocket budget share? 3. Does an increase in coverage of a health insurance scheme always result in a reduction of the prevalence of catastrophic ex-penditures?

Keywords: Catastrophic health expenditure; welfare change; poverty; performance of health insurance schemes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-05-25
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Published in 2011, pp.25

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