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What are the economic consequences for households of illness and of paying for health care in low- and middle-income country contexts?

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  1. Kishor Atreya & Narayan Sharma Rimal & Prabina Makai & Manish Baidya & Jiban Karki & Gerda Pohl & Sunita Bhattarai, 2023. "Dalit’s livelihoods in Nepal: income sources and determinants," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 25(11), pages 12629-12657, November.
  2. Wagner, Anita K. & Graves, Amy Johnson & Reiss, Sheila K. & LeCates, Robert & Zhang, Fang & Ross-Degnan, Dennis, 2011. "Access to care and medicines, burden of health care expenditures, and risk protection: Results from the World Health Survey," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 100(2), pages 151-158.
  3. Robert John Kolesar & Guido Erreygers & Wim van Dam & Vanara Chea & Theany Choeurng & Soklong Leng, 2021. "Hardship Financing, Productivity Loss, and the Economic Cost of Illness and Injury in Cambodia," Working Papers hal-03437399, HAL.
  4. Xiaochen Ma & Ziyue Wang & Xiaoyun Liu, 2019. "Progress on Catastrophic Health Expenditure in China: Evidence from China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) 2010 to 2016," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(23), pages 1-11, November.
  5. de Menil, Victoria & Knapp, Martin & McDaid, David & Njenga, Frank Gitau, 2014. "Service use, charge, and access to mental healthcare in a private Kenyan inpatient setting: the effects of insurance," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 56444, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  6. Jenna Dixon & Eric Y Tenkorang & Isaac Luginaah, 2011. "Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme: Helping the Poor or Leaving Them Behind?," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 29(6), pages 1102-1115, December.
  7. Khan, Farid & Bedi, Arjun S. & Sparrow, Robert, 2015. "Sickness and Death: Economic Consequences and Coping Strategies of the Urban Poor in Bangladesh," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 72(C), pages 255-266.
  8. Somkotra, Tewarit & Lagrada, Leizel P., 2008. "Payments for health care and its effect on catastrophe and impoverishment: Experience from the transition to Universal Coverage in Thailand," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 67(12), pages 2027-2035, December.
  9. Onah, Michael Nnachebe & Horton, Susan, 2018. "Male-female differences in households' resource allocation and decision to seek healthcare in south-eastern Nigeria: Results from a mixed methods study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 84-91.
  10. Por Ir & Chean Men & Henry Lucas & Bruno Meessen & Kristof Decoster & Gerald Bloom & Wim Van Damme, 2010. "Self-Reported Serious Illnesses in Rural Cambodia: A Cross-Sectional Survey," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(6), pages 1-12, June.
  11. Pavel, Md Sadik & Chakrabarty, Sayan & Gow, Jeff, 2015. "Cost of illness for outpatients attending public and private hospitals in Bangladesh," MPRA Paper 74491, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 03 Sep 2016.
  12. Anja Sautmann & Samuel Brown & Mark Dean, 2016. "Subsidies, Information, and the Timing of Childrenís Health Care in Mali," Working Papers 2016-2, Brown University, Department of Economics.
  13. Sefinew Alemu Mekonnen & Agegnehu Gezehagn & Adugna Berju & Belete Haile & Haileyesus Dejene & Seleshe Nigatu & Wassie Molla & Wudu Temesgen Jemberu, 2021. "Health and economic burden of foodborne zoonotic diseases in Amhara region, Ethiopia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(12), pages 1-15, December.
  14. Fink, Günther & Robyn, Paul Jacob & Sié, Ali & Sauerborn, Rainer, 2013. "Does health insurance improve health?," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(6), pages 1043-1056.
  15. Sedona Sweeney & Anna Vassall & Lorna Guinness & Mariana Siapka & Natsayi Chimbindi & Don Mudzengi & Gabriela B. Gomez, 2020. "Examining Approaches to Estimate the Prevalence of Catastrophic Costs Due to Tuberculosis from Small-Scale Studies in South Africa," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 38(6), pages 619-631, June.
  16. Anne Case & Christina Paxson, 2011. "The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 48(2), pages 675-697, May.
  17. Wagner, Natascha & Quimbo, Stella & Shimkhada, Riti & Peabody, John, 2018. "Does health insurance coverage or improved quality protect better against out-of-pocket payments? Experimental evidence from the Philippines," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 204(C), pages 51-58.
  18. Samuel D. Towne & Xiaojun Liu & Rui Li & Matthew Lee Smith & Jay E. Maddock & Anran Tan & Samah Hayek & Shira Zelber-Sagi & Xiaoqing Jiang & Haotian Ruan & Zhaokang Yuan, 2021. "Social and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities: Socioeconomic, Transportation-Related, and Provincial-Level Indicators of Cost-Related Forgone Hospital Care in China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(11), pages 1-11, June.
  19. Alemayehu Hailu & Bernt Lindtjørn & Wakgari Deressa & Taye Gari & Eskindir Loha & Bjarne Robberstad, 2017. "Economic burden of malaria and predictors of cost variability to rural households in south-central Ethiopia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(10), pages 1-16, October.
  20. Xiaoyun Sun & Sukhan Jackson & Gordon Carmichael & Adrian C. Sleigh, 2009. "Catastrophic medical payment and financial protection in rural China: evidence from the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(1), pages 103-119, January.
  21. Augustine Asante & Jennifer Price & Andrew Hayen & Stephen Jan & Virginia Wiseman, 2016. "Equity in Health Care Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Evidence from Studies Using Benefit and Financing Incidence Analyses," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(4), pages 1-20, April.
  22. Axel Demenet, 2016. "Health Shocks and Permanent Income Loss: the Household Business Channel," Working Papers DT/2016/11, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
  23. Jean-Michel Lafleur & Olivier Lizin, 2014. "Transnational Health Insurance Schemes: A New Avenue for Congolese Immigrants in Belgium to Care for Their Relatives' Health from Abroad?," Working Papers 15-01d, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Migration and Development..
  24. Hauck, K. & Martin, S. & Smith, P.C., 2016. "Priorities for action on the social determinants of health: Empirical evidence on the strongest associations with life expectancy in 54 low-income countries, 1990–2012," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 167(C), pages 88-98.
  25. Mihajlo Jakovljevic & Elena Potapchik & Larisa Popovich & Debasis Barik & Thomas E. Getzen, 2017. "Evolving Health Expenditure Landscape of the BRICS Nations and Projections to 2025," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(7), pages 844-852, July.
  26. Ergler, Christina R. & Sakdapolrak, Patrick & Bohle, Hans-Georg & Kearns, Robin A., 2011. "Entitlements to health care: Why is there a preference for private facilities among poorer residents of Chennai, India?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 72(3), pages 327-337, February.
  27. Anshul Kastor & Sanjay K Mohanty, 2018. "Disease-specific out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditure on hospitalization in India: Do Indian households face distress health financing?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(5), pages 1-18, May.
  28. Mohd Masood & Aubrey Sheiham & Eduardo Bernabé, 2015. "Household Expenditure for Dental Care in Low and Middle Income Countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(4), pages 1-11, April.
  29. Xiaowei Yang & Jianmin Gao & Zhongliang Zhou & Jue Yan & Sha Lai & Yongjian Xu & Gang Chen, 2016. "Assessing the Effects of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme on Alleviating the Health Payment-Induced Poverty in Shaanxi Province, China," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-12, July.
  30. Storeng, Katerini Tagmatarchi & Baggaley, Rebecca F. & Ganaba, Rasmané & Ouattara, Fatoumata & Akoum, Mélanie S. & Filippi, Véronique, 2008. "Paying the price: The cost and consequences of emergency obstetric care in Burkina Faso," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(3), pages 545-557, February.
  31. Cleary, Susan & Birch, Steve & Chimbindi, Natsayi & Silal, Sheetal & McIntyre, Di, 2013. "Investigating the affordability of key health services in South Africa," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 80(C), pages 37-46.
  32. Kim, Chang-O & Joung, Won Oh, 2014. "Effect of the Crisis Assistance Program on poverty transition for seriously ill people in South Korea: A quasi-experimental study," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 101(C), pages 28-35.
  33. Tazeen Tahsina & Nazia Binte Ali & Md Abu Bakkar Siddique & Sameen Ahmed & Mubashshira Rahman & Sajia Islam & Md Mezanur Rahman & Bushra Amena & D M Emdadul Hoque & Tanvir M Huda & Shams El Arifeen, 2018. "Determinants of hardship financing in coping with out of pocket payment for care seeking of under five children in selected rural areas of Bangladesh," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(5), pages 1-17, May.
  34. Oliver Kaonga & Charles Banda & Felix Masiye, 2019. "Hardship financing of out-of-pocket payments in the context of free healthcare in Zambia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(4), pages 1-14, April.
  35. Pavithra Harshani Warnakulasooriya & Kaushalya Kasturiaratchi, 2022. "The household economic cost of caregivers: children with congenital heart diseases attending to Pediatric Hospital, Sri Lanka," South Asia Economic Journal, Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka, vol. 23(1), pages 52-60, March.
  36. Rebecca L. Thornton & Laurel E. Hatt & Erica M. Field & Mursaleena Islam & Freddy Solís Diaz & Martha Azucena González, 2010. "Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 19(S1), pages 181-206, September.
  37. Arsenijevic, Jelena & Pavlova, Milena & Groot, Wim, 2013. "Measuring the catastrophic and impoverishing effect of household health care spending in Serbia," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 17-25.
  38. Victoria Pattison de Menil & Martin Knapp & David McDaid & Frank Gitau Njenga, 2014. "Service Use, Charge, and Access to Mental Healthcare in a Private Kenyan Inpatient Setting: The Effects of Insurance," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(3), pages 1-7, March.
  39. Yunhee Chang & Jinhee Kim & Swarn Chatterjee, 2018. "Health Care Expenditures, Financial Stability, and Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)," Papers 1811.05421, arXiv.org.
  40. Coast, Joanna, 2018. "A history that goes hand in hand: Reflections on the development of health economics and the role played by Social Science & Medicine, 1967–2017," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 196(C), pages 227-232.
  41. Patrick Sakdapolrak & Thomas Seyler & Christina Ergler, 2013. "Burden of direct and indirect costs of illness: Empirical findings from slum settlements in Chennai, South India," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 13(2), pages 135-151, April.
  42. Arnousse Beaulière & Siaka Touré & Pierre-Kébreau Alexandre & Koko Koné & Alex Pouhé & Bertin Kouadio & Neige Journy & Jérôme Son & Virginie Ettiègne-Traoré & François Dabis & Serge Eholié & Xavier An, 2010. "The Financial Burden of Morbidity in HIV-Infected Adults on Antiretroviral Therapy in Côte d'Ivoire," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(6), pages 1-7, June.
  43. Jobiba Chinkhumba & Manuela De Allegri & Jacob Mazalale & Stephan Brenner & Don Mathanga & Adamson S Muula & Bjarne Robberstad, 2017. "Household costs and time to seek care for pregnancy related complications: The role of results-based financing," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(9), pages 1-18, September.
  44. Dr Sukhan Jackson & Xiaoyun Sun1 & Gordon Carmichael & Adrian C. Sleigh1., 2007. "Catastrophic Payment and Health Protection in Rural China - Impact of New Cooperative Medical Scheme in Shandong Province," Discussion Papers Series 344, School of Economics, University of Queensland, Australia.
  45. Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla & Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali, 2017. "Determinants and Impact of Households’s Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenditure in Sudan: Evidence From Urban and Rural Population," Working Papers 1170, Economic Research Forum, revised 12 2017.
  46. Kumara, Ajantha Sisira & Samaratunge, Ramanie, 2017. "Impact of ill-health on household consumption in Sri Lanka: Evidence from household survey data," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 195(C), pages 68-76.
  47. Gabriela B Gomez & Nicola Foster & Daniella Brals & Heleen E Nelissen & Oladimeji A Bolarinwa & Marleen E Hendriks & Alexander C Boers & Diederik van Eck & Nicole Rosendaal & Peju Adenusi & Kayode Agb, 2015. "Improving Maternal Care through a State-Wide Health Insurance Program: A Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Study in Rural Nigeria," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(9), pages 1-17, September.
  48. Sumaiyah Docrat & Susan Cleary & Dan Chisholm & Crick Lund, 2019. "The household economic costs associated with depression symptoms: A cross-sectional household study conducted in the North West province of South Africa," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(11), pages 1-22, November.
  49. Raúl Del Pozo-Rubio & Isabel Pardo-García & Francisco Escribano-Sotos, 2020. "Financial Catastrophism Inherent with Out-of-Pocket Payments in Long Term Care for Households: A Latent Impoverishment," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(1), pages 1-19, January.
  50. Chengchao Wang & Yuan Wang & Haiyan Fang & Bidan Gao & Zudeng Weng & Ying Tian, 2020. "Determinants of Rural Poverty in Remote Mountains of Southeast China from the Household Perspective," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 150(3), pages 793-810, August.
  51. Ingrid Miljeteig & Frehiwot Berhane Defaye & Paul Wakim & Dawit Neema Desalegn & Yemane Berhane & Ole Frithjof Norheim & Marion Danis, 2019. "Financial risk protection at the bedside: How Ethiopian physicians try to minimize out-of-pocket health expenditures," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-16, February.
  52. Johnson, Ari & Goss, Adeline & Beckerman, Jessica & Castro, Arachu, 2012. "Hidden costs: The direct and indirect impact of user fees on access to malaria treatment and primary care in Mali," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 75(10), pages 1786-1792.
  53. Stephen K.O. Duku & Edward Nketiah-Amponsahd & Christine J. Fenenga & Daniel K. Arhinful & Wendy (W.) Janssens & Menno (M.) Pradhan, 2018. "The Effect of Community Engagement on Healthcare Utilization and Health Insurance Enrolment in Ghana Results from a Randomized Experiment," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 18-017/V, Tinbergen Institute.
  54. Pedrazzoli, Debora & Carter, Daniel J. & Borghi, Josephine & Laokri, Samia & Boccia, Delia & Houben, Rein MGJ., 2021. "Does Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme provide financial protection to tuberculosis patients and their households?," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 277(C).
  55. Nguyen, Kim Thuy & Hai Khuat, Oanh Thi & Ma, Shuangge & Pham, Duc Cuong & Hong Khuat, Giang Thi & Ruger, Jennifer Prah, 2012. "Coping with health care expenses among poor households: Evidence from a rural commune in Vietnam," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 74(5), pages 724-733.
  56. Ranson, Kent & Law, Tyler J. & Bennett, Sara, 2010. "Establishing health systems financing research priorities in developing countries using a participatory methodology," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 70(12), pages 1933-1942, June.
  57. Xiaoyu Wang & Chunan Wang, 2020. "How Does Health Status Affect Marginal Utility of Consumption? Evidence from China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(7), pages 1-20, March.
  58. Ebaidalla Mahjoub Ebaidalla & Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali, 2018. "Chronic Illness and Labor Market Participation in Arab Countries: Evidence from Egypt and Tunisia," Working Papers 1229, Economic Research Forum, revised 10 Oct 2018.
  59. Jelena Arsenijevic & Milena Pavlova & Wim Groot, 2014. "Out-of-pocket payments for public healthcare services by selected exempted groups in Serbia during the period of post-war healthcare reforms," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(4), pages 373-398, October.
  60. Shahin Shooshtari & Karen A. Duncan & Kerstin Roger & Janet Fast & Jing Han, 2017. "Care-related Out-of-Pocket Spending and Caregiving Consequences: Results from a Canadian Population-based Study," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 38(3), pages 405-420, September.
  61. Braulio A Marfil-Garza & Pablo F Belaunzarán-Zamudio & Alfonso Gulias-Herrero & Antonio Camiro Zuñiga & Yanink Caro-Vega & David Kershenobich-Stalnikowitz & José Sifuentes-Osornio, 2018. "Risk factors associated with prolonged hospital length-of-stay: 18-year retrospective study of hospitalizations in a tertiary healthcare center in Mexico," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(11), pages 1-14, November.
  62. Betregiorgis Zegeye & Ziad El-Khatib & Edward Kwabena Ameyaw & Abdul-Aziz Seidu & Bright Opoku Ahinkorah & Mpho Keetile & Sanni Yaya, 2021. "Breaking Barriers to Healthcare Access: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual- and Community-Level Factors Affecting Women’s Access to Healthcare Services in Benin," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(2), pages 1-15, January.
  63. Sedona Sweeney & Anna Vassall & Nicola Foster & Victoria Simms & Patrick Ilboudo & Godfather Kimaro & Don Mudzengi & Lorna Guinness, 2016. "Methodological Issues to Consider When Collecting Data to Estimate Poverty Impact in Economic Evaluations in Low‐income and Middle‐income Countries," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(S1), pages 42-52, February.
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  66. Yonatan Dinku & David Fielding & Murat Genç, 2018. "Health shocks and child time allocation decisions by households: evidence from Ethiopia," IZA Journal of Labor Economics, Springer;Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 7(1), pages 1-23, December.
  67. Arjun S. Bedi & Sparrow, R.A., 2014. "Sickness and death," ISS Working Papers - General Series 51366, International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam (ISS), The Hague.
  68. Sheikh Jamal Hossain & Bharati Rani Roy & Aniqa Tasnim Hossain & Fardina Mehrin & SM Mulk Uddin Tipu & Fahmida Tofail & Shams El Arifeen & Thach Tran & Jane Fisher & Jena Hamadani, 2020. "Prevalence of Maternal Postpartum Depression, Health-Seeking Behavior and Out of Pocket Payment for Physical Illness and Cost Coping Mechanism of the Poor Families in Bangladesh: A Rural Community-Bas," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(13), pages 1-13, July.
  69. Habibov, Nazim & Cheung, Alex, 2017. "Revisiting informal payments in 29 transitional countries: The scale and socio-economic correlates," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 178(C), pages 28-37.
  70. Onwujekwe, Obinna & Onoka, Chima & Uzochukwu, Benjamin & Okoli, Chijioke & Obikeze, Eric & Eze, Soludo, 2009. "Is community-based health insurance an equitable strategy for paying for healthcare? Experiences from southeast Nigeria," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 92(1), pages 96-102, September.
  71. Stephen Oswald Maluka & Godfrey Bukagile, 2014. "Implementation of Community Health Fund in Tanzania: why do some districts perform better than others?," International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 29(4), pages 368-382, October.
  72. Omar Galárraga & Sandra Sosa-Rubí & Aarón Salinas-Rodríguez & Sergio Sesma-Vázquez, 2010. "Health insurance for the poor: impact on catastrophic and out-of-pocket health expenditures in Mexico," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 11(5), pages 437-447, October.
  73. Sarah Alkenbrack & Magnus Lindelow, 2015. "The Impact of Community‐Based Health Insurance on Utilization and Out‐of‐Pocket Expenditures in Lao People's Democratic Republic," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(4), pages 379-399, April.
  74. Ioana van Deurzen & Wim van Oorschot & Erik van Ingen, 2014. "The Link between Inequality and Population Health in Low and Middle Income Countries: Policy Myth or Social Reality?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(12), pages 1-22, December.
  75. Raphaël Cottin, 2018. "Free health care for the poor: a good way to achieve universal health coverage? Evidence from Morocco," Working Papers DT/2018/16, DIAL (Développement, Institutions et Mondialisation).
  76. Diego Proaño Falconi & Eduardo Bernabé, 2018. "Determinants of catastrophic healthcare expenditure in Peru," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 18(4), pages 425-436, December.
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