Impoverishing effects of catastrophic health expenditures in Malawi

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• 作者：Martina Mchenga ; Gowokani Chijere Chirwa…
• 关键词：Catastrophic health expenditure ; Out of pocket expenditure (OOP) ; Total health expenditure (THE) ; Impoverishment ; Health financing ; Malawi
• 刊名：International Journal for Equity in Health
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：647KB
• 刊物主题：Public Health; Quality of Life Research; Social Policy; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1475-9276
• 卷排序：16

文摘

BackgroundOut of pocket (OOP) health spending can potentially expose households to risk of incurring large medical bills, and this may impact on their welfare. This work investigates the effect of catastrophic OOP on the incidence and depth of poverty in Malawi.