Paying for health care: quantifying fairness, catastrophe, and impoverishment, with applications to Vietnam, 1993-98

Egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) are compared with minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed a prescribed share of prepayment income or not drive households into poverty). The arguments and methods a...

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Hauptverfasser: Wagstaff, Adam 1959- (VerfasserIn), Van Doorslaer, Eddy 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Services for Human Development 2001
Schriftenreihe:Policy research working paper 2715
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Zusammenfassung:Egalitarian concepts of fairness in health care payments (requiring that payments be linked to ability to pay) are compared with minimum standards approaches (requiring that payments not exceed a prescribed share of prepayment income or not drive households into poverty). The arguments and methods are illustrated using data and out-of-pocket health spending in Vietnam in 1993 and 1998
Beschreibung:"November 2001. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-36). - Title from title screen as viewed on Aug. 24, 2002
Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2001]
Weitere Ausgabe: Wagstaff, Adam : Paying for health care
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