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    Incidence, Intensity, and Correlates of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Payments in India

    Bonu, Sekhar; Bhushan, Indu; Peters, David H. | October 2007
    Abstract
    This study investigates the incidence, intensity, and correlates of catastrophic health payments in India. The paper confirms the continuing high incidence of catastrophic health payments and increase in poverty headcount and poverty gap due to health payments. Despite India’s remarkable economic growth, catastrophic health spending remains a major cause of poverty. Using bivariate analysis and Heckman sample selection and multinomial logistic regression for multivariate regression analysis, the paper finds that health payments were 4.6% of total household expenditure and 9.7% of household nonfood expenditure. Poverty headcount increased from 27.5% to 31.0% due to health payments, which translates to 39.5 million people falling below the poverty line due to health payments. It is important for India to develop effective risk pooling arrangements for health care.
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    Bonu, Sekhar; Bhushan, Indu; Peters, David H.. 2007. Incidence, Intensity, and Correlates of Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Payments in India. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1865. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.
    ISSN
    1655-5252
    Keywords
    World Health Organization
    Urban Health Services
    Rural Health Services
    Nutrition and Health Care
    Health Aspects of Poverty
    Health and Hygiene and the Poor
    Education, Health and Social Protection
    Access to Health Care
    Social Aspects Of Poverty
    Disease Control
    Occupational Hygiene
    Medical Services
    Health Costs
    Sanitation
    Diseases
    Water Quality
    Respiratory Diseases
    Health Indicators
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Disadvantaged Groups
    Cost of medical care
    Health status indicators
    Sanitation services
    Sickness
    Illness
    Prevention of disease
    Health status indicators
    Cost and standard of living
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1865
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    Bonu, Sekhar
    Bhushan, Indu
    Peters, David H.
    Theme
    Health
    Poverty
     
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