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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Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C
World Bank, Development Research Group, Public Services for Human Development
2001
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Series: | Policy research working paper
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Collection: | World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | 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 |
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Item Description: | "November 2001. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 34-36). - Title from title screen as viewed on Aug. 24, 2002 |