Assessing the impoverishing effects, and factors associated with the incidence of catastrophic health care payments in Kenya

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• 作者：Edwine W. Barasa ; Thomas Maina…
• 关键词：Household health spending ; Out of pocket health spending ; Catastrophic health spending ; Financial risk protection ; Kenya
• 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：812KB
• 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

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BackgroundMonitoring the incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure, as well as the impoverishing effects of out of pocket costs to access healthcare, is a key part of benchmarking Kenya’s progress towards reducing the financial burden that households experience when accessing healthcare.