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Explaining the Incidence of Catastrophic Expenditures on health care: Comparative Evidence from Asia

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  • Owen O’Donnell

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Out-of-pocket (OOP) financing of health care leaves households exposed to the risk of unforeseen expenditures that absorb a large share of the household budget. We explain variation in the incidence of catastrophic medical expenditures across households in six Asian countries/territories. The effects are distinguished through the mean and the variance of the OOP budget share by estimating a linear regression model with multiplicative heteroscedasticity. [EQUITAP WP 5].

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  • Owen O’Donnell, 2007. "Explaining the Incidence of Catastrophic Expenditures on health care: Comparative Evidence from Asia," Working Papers id:1095, eSocialSciences.
    • Handle: RePEc:ess:wpaper:id:1095
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