FPRO: Stata module to compute Financial Protection Indicators for Health Expenditures

Patrick Eozenou () and Adam Wagstaff

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: The package contains two commands (fpcata and fpimpov) to compute indicators of financial protection for health expenditures. fpcata computes the incidence of 'catastrophic' health spending (the % of households spending in excess of a prespecified share of total household consumption) for each of a set of thresholds specified by the user, and the concentration index for catastrophic spending. fpimpov computes the incidence of 'impoverishing' health spending, i.e. the % of households who are pushed below the poverty line by out-of-pocket health spending. This is calculated by comparing the poverty headcount (the % of households who are poor) with household total consumption including (i.e. gross of) and excluding (i.e. net of) household out-of-pocket spending on health. Both measures are derived in Wagstaff and van Doorslaer (Health Economics, 2003).

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 13.1
Keywords: financial protection; universal health coverage; health expenditures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-02
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install fpro". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpcata.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpcata.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpimpov.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpimpov.sthlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpcata-example.do sample do-file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpimpov-example.do sample do-file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpdata-1.dta sample data file (application/x-stata)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/f/fpdata-2.dta sample data file (application/x-stata)

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