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Presence of Severe Injuries and Financial Burden of Hospitalization: A Case of Vietnam

In: Organizations and Performance in a Complex World

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  • Phuong Vu

    (National Economics University, School of Banking and Finance)

  • Ardeshir Sepehri

    (University of Manitoba)

Abstract

Using Vietnam’s Household Living Standard Survey of 2014 and a multivariate regression analysis, this paper compares inpatient out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditure among individuals reporting at least one severe injury and those reporting no severe injuries during the 12 months preceding the survey (n = 2771). Presence of severe injuries is found to increase inpatient OOP expenditure by 60% and the increase in OOP expenditure is more pronounced for contacts at a central hospital (154.7%) than at a district hospital (45.4%). Our findings suggest that the financial protection of health insurance is modest, reducing OOP expenditure by 31.5% for a contact at a central hospital and by 44–50% for a contact at district and provincial/city hospitals. Measures should be taken to strengthen the injury care at the community level while broadening the breadth and depths of insurance coverage.

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  • Phuong Vu & Ardeshir Sepehri, 2021. "Presence of Severe Injuries and Financial Burden of Hospitalization: A Case of Vietnam," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Ramona Orăștean & Claudia Ogrean & Silvia Cristina Mărginean (ed.), Organizations and Performance in a Complex World, pages 401-415, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-030-50676-6_32
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-50676-6_32
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