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Out-of-pocket health payments and catastrophic expenditures

Catastophic expenditures - related documents

• Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis
  pdf, 218kb
  K Xu, DB Evans, K Kawabata, et al. (2003): Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multi-country analysis. The Lancet. Vol(362):111-117.
• Health Systems Performance Assessment
  Health Systems Performance Assessment: Debates, Methods and Empiricism. Edited by Christopher J.L. Murray, David B. Evans. World Health Organization, Geneva, 2003.

Including the chapters:

• Assessing the distribution of household financial contributions to the health system: concepts and empirical application
• Household health system contributions and capacity to pay:definitional, empirical and technical challenges
• Summary measures of the distribution of household financial contributions to health
• The impact of vertical and horizontal inequality on the fairness in financial contribution index
• Understanding household catastrophic expenditures: a multi-country analysis

• Preventing impoverishment through protection against catastrophic health expenditure
  pdf, 35kb
  Kawabata K, Xu K, Carrin G (2002): Preventing impoverishment through protection against catastrophic health expenditure. Bulletin of World Health Organization. 80(8):612
• DP2/05: Distribution of health payments and catastrophic expenditures: methodology
  pdf, 233kb
  Discussion paper 2/05: Distribution of health payments and catastrophic expenditures: methodology. By Ke Xu, WHO/HSS/HSF/HFP
• DP2/05: Distribución del gasto en salud y gastos catastróficos: metodología
  pdf, 239kb
• Understanding the impact of eliminating user fees: Utilization and catastrophic health expenditures in Uganda
  pdf, 232kb
  Ke Xu, David B. Evans, Patrick Kadama, Juliet Nabyonga, Peter Ogwang Ogwal, Pamela Nabukhonzo, Ana Mylena Aguilar (2006). Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006) 866–876
• Health Financing in Argentina: An Empirical Study of Health Care Expenditure and Utilization
  Cavagnero E, Carrin G, Xu K, Aguilar-Rivera AM (2006), "Innovations in Health Financing: Working Paper Series", Fundación Mexicana para la Salud / Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
• Protecting Households From Catastrophic Health Spending
  Xu K, Evans D, Carrin G, Aguilar-Rivera AM, Musgrove P, Evans T (2007), in Health Affairs
• Coping with out-of-pocket health payments: empirical evidence from 15 African countries
  by Adam Leive & Ke Xu (2008), in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol 86(11)