Multidimensional poverty and catastrophic health spending in the mountainous regions of Myanmar, Nepal and India

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• 作者：Sanjay K. Mohanty ; Nand Kishor Agrawal…
• 关键词：Multidimensional poverty ; Catastrophic health spending ; India ; Nepal ; Myanmar
• 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：552KB
• 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

BackgroundEconomic burden to households due to out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) is large in many Asian countries. Though studies suggest increasing household poverty due to high OOPE in developing countries, studies on association of multidimensional poverty and household health spending is limited. This paper tests the hypothesis that the multidimensionally poor are more likely to incur catastrophic health spending cutting across countries.