Incidence of catastrophic health expenditure in Costa Rican households 2004 and 2013

 

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Autoren: Briceño Chamorro, Rodrigo, Vargas Brenes, Juan Rafael
Format: artículo original
Status:Versión publicada
Publikationsdatum:2017
Beschreibung:Objetive: Identify the percentage of households whose out-of-pocket expenditures turn out to be a financial catastrophe (thirty to forty percent of household income). Methods: The World Bank's Research and Development Group Equity and Financial Protection module ADePT software is used along with a series of programmable routines that replicate the catastrophic expenditure analysis methodology of the study developed by Knaul, Wong, and Arreola-Ornelas (2012). Results: The incidence of catastrophic expenditure increased slightly from 0.6 percent of households in 2004 to 0.8 percent in 2013. Conclusions: The incidence of catastrophic health expenditure in Costa Rican households is not a problem for the Costa Rican health system, but the concern should be issue targeted.
Land:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institution:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Sprache:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/29595
Online Zugang:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/psm/article/view/29595
Stichwort:health expenditures
catastrophic expenditure
household consumption
household surveys
hospitalization
health insurance
gastos en salud
gasto catastrófico
consumo de los hogares
encuestas de hogares
hospitalización
seguro de salud